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Proliferation vs Overproliferation - What's the difference?

proliferation | overproliferation |

As nouns the difference between proliferation and overproliferation

is that proliferation is proliferation, spreading while overproliferation is excessive proliferation.

proliferation

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
  • (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
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    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
  • (uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.

    • overproliferation

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Excessive proliferation

    • Related terms

    *overproliferate *overproliferative