overelaboration
Too much detail
Overelaboration is excessive detail or complication beyond what's useful.
Writing suffers from overelaboration when it explains too much, qualifies every statement, or buries the point under unnecessary refinement.
The proposal's overelaboration made it harder, not easier, to understand.
The word implies that elaboration, normally helpful, has crossed into counterproductive territory.
Excessive use of language
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- pleonasmRedundant expression
- verbosityUnnecessary word excess
- redundancyNeedless duplication
long-windedness · prolixity · garrulity · rambling · diffuseness · logorrhea · expatiation · windiness
State of elaborate complexity
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- ornatenessExcessive embellishment quality
- baroqueExcessively ornate or elaborate
- rococoExcessively elaborate in style
byzantine · labyrinthine · overwrought · fussiness · filigree · embellishment · gilding · overcomplication
Excessive detailed examination
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- perfectionismCompulsive pursuit of flawlessness
- paralysisLoss of muscle function
- nitpickingExcessive focus on trivialities
hair-splitting · second-guessing · overworking · obsessing · belaboring · overprocessing · fine-tuning · tweaking
State of being complete
- exhaustingDepleting one's stamina
- tiresomeCausing boredom or annoyance
- wearyingCausing gradual exhaustion
- belaboredExcessively dwelt upon
drawn-out · protracted · overlong · interminable · plodding · overworn · overkill · ad nauseam
wordiness
Excessive use of language
- circumlocutionIndirect, wordy expression
- pleonasmRedundant expression
- verbosityUnnecessary word excess
redundancy · long-windedness · prolixity · garrulity · rambling · diffuseness · logorrhea · expatiation · windiness · discursiveness
intricacy
State of elaborate complexity
- convolutionTwisting or mathematical integration
- ornatenessExcessive embellishment quality
- baroqueExcessively ornate or elaborate
rococo · byzantine · labyrinthine · overwrought · fussiness · filigree · embellishment · gilding · overcomplication · overdecoration
overanalysis
Excessive detailed examination
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- perfectionismCompulsive pursuit of flawlessness
- paralysisLoss of muscle function
nitpicking · hair-splitting · second-guessing · overworking · obsessing · belaboring · overprocessing · fine-tuning · tweaking · fiddling
exhaustiveness
State of being complete
- exhaustingDepleting one's stamina
- tiresomeCausing boredom or annoyance
- wearyingCausing gradual exhaustion
belabored · drawn-out · protracted · overlong · interminable · plodding · overworn · overkill · ad nauseam
overelaborationsimplicity
Lack of complexity
understatement · minimalism · plainness · simplification · spareness
overelaborationconcision
Verbal economy, pared down
brevity · terseness · succinctness · conciseness · pithiness