Definition of "overdiagnose" [overdiagnose]

• To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs (verb)

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• "The report's royal "we" returns again and again to such questions, claiming that "we overdiagnose, overtreat and overpromise.""
• "I also think that our schools and medical profession tend to overdiagnose certain things like ADD or Autism and it goes in cycles."
• "The results of most of them show a tendency for mental health professionals to overdiagnose women's depression and underdiagnose the disorder in men."