overintellectualized

English

Verb

overintellectualized

1. simple past and past participle of overintellectualize
   • 2002, Norman Cliff, John Augustus Keats, Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences:

     It is not unreasonable to argue that the field has been overintellectualized in that many of the representations are based on matrix algebra, latent trait theory, and . . .

Adjective

overintellectualized (comparative more overintellectualized, superlative most overintellectualized)

1. Treated in an excessively intellectual manner.
   • 2000 March, Alex Blumberg, “It's Good to Be King”, in WIRED‎, archived from the original on 24 March 2005:

     The Kingdom of Triparia (www.triparia.cx), founded in 1998, is a classic of the genre: 17 citizens, with fancy titles and a penchant for posting overintellectualized bulletin-board messages, united in an act of collective imagination.

References

• OED 2004 (online)