[syn: oversimplification, simplism]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
oversimplification
n 1: an act of excessive simplification; the act of making
something seem simpler than it really is [syn:
oversimplification, simplism]
2: a simplification that goes too far (to the point of
misrepresentation) [syn: oversimplification, simplism]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "oversimplification":
callowness, coarseness, conceptual crudity, crudeness, crudity,
greenness, immatureness, immaturity, nondevelopment,
oversimplicity, oversimplifying, rawness, reductionism,
reductivism, roughness, rudeness, simplism, the rough,
uncultivation, undevelopment, unfinish, unfinishedness,
unfledgedness, unrefinement, unripeness