overcorrection
noun[CorU]
(alsoover-correction)uk/ˌəʊ.və.kəˈrek.ʃən/us/ˌoʊ.vɚ.kəˈrek.ʃən/theactofchangingsomething too much when you aretryingtocorrectit, or achangelike this:
Sometimessurgerycanresultin an overcorrection.
Confusions with theconditionalmay be aresultof over-correction.
- Overcorrectionleadsto oversteering andoverreacting.
- Overcorrection is animportantriskwheninitiatingtherapy.
- Widespreadbiasescanpotentiallyleadto overcorrections whenpricesadjust.
- Anothercommonover-correctioninvolvespairsdistinguishedasadjectiveandadverb,especially"good" and "well", in uses afterlinkingverbs.
Correcting and mending
- calibration
- clean(someone/something)up
- correction
- fiddle (around) withsomething
- fine-tune
- mess
- recondition
- reconstruct
- reconstruction
- rectification
- refine
- remedy
- revise
- revised
- set/put the record straightidiom
- smoothsomethingaway
- smoothen
- sort
- sortsomethingout
- tinker