overreference

English

Etymology

over- +‎ reference

Verb

overreference (third-person singular simple present overreferences, present participle overreferencing, simple past and past participle overreferenced)

  1. To reference too much or too often.
    • 1979, Environment and Planning A (volume 11 page 964)
      Despite considerable overreferencing, which sometimes intrudes into the text sufficiently to disturb the thought processes of the reader, the book is well written.
    • 2010, Robert Vieira, Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming
      The concept of normalization has to be one of most overreferenced yet misunderstood concepts in programming.
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