overjustify (English, verb)
expansion: overjustify (third-person singular simple present overjustifies, present participle overjustifying, simple past and past participle overjustified)
Senses:
glosses: To justify excessively; to provide too much justification for.
tags: transitive
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Specifically, to provide external incentive for an already-internally-motivated behavior, thereby risking the loss of the original motivation.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: overjustifies
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overjustifying
tags: participle
present
form: overjustified
tags: participle
past
form: overjustified
tags: past