overillustration
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
overillustration (uncountable)
- Excessive illustration.
- 1920, John Livesy Ridgway, The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey, page 8:
- There is no rule limiting the number of illustrations that may be used in a publication of the Geological Survey, but in selecting illustrations for a report an author may easily fall into the error of overillustration.