overimagine

Etymology

From over- + imagine.

overimagine means to imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

verb

To imagine with excessively elaborate detail, or in an exaggerated fashion.“There is no era he can’t over-research, no scene he can’t overimagine, no digression he can resist and no sentence he can’t sag with too many words — “furbelowed,” “putti,” “ viaticum,” “myrmidons” — you don’t know.”