My friend and I are having a discussion on the usage of oversaturation. My opinion is that the term is oficially a medical turn which use is now changing due to urban usage. His opinion is that thus the current usage is correct. What do you guys think? Is oversatured used correctly in the given example or not? Any theory/facts/opinions on this?
Is: the word oversaturation used correctly in: "That joke is oversaturated" ?
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- 3+ months ago by mrstojkovic
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It is not a medical term.
saturate
1 to satisfy fully : satiate
2 to treat, furnish, or charge with something to the point where no more can be absorbed, dissolved, or retained <water saturated with salt
3 a : to fill completely with something that permeates or pervades
b : to load to capacity
4 : to cause to combine until there is no further tendency to combine
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saturate
Oversaturate just means running over. There is another condition called supersaturate. For example hot water will dissolve more salt than cold. So if hot water is saturated and then cooled, it still holds the salt but it is supersaturated and interesting things can happen when the solution is disturbed.