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}]
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