overt
An action or condition said to be detrimental to one’s own survival and thus unethicalAn action or condition said to be detrimental to one’s own survival and thus unethical; the consciousness of such behaviour.
» Racism today isn't so overt.
Rassismus heutzutage ist nicht so offenkundig. — Yorwba
CM · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesAn action or condition said to be detrimental to one’s own survival and thus unethical; the consciousness of such behaviour.
Examples
5 sentencesRacism today isn't so overt.
deRassismus heutzutage ist nicht so offenkundig. — Yorwba
There is no overt sign of damage.
It was an overt provocation.
deEs war eine offene Provokation. — Yorwba · CC BY 2.0 FR
The speaker believes that overt expression of feeling for others helps people tap into their own repressed emotions.
There was absolutely nothing that proved any intention on the part of Ferdinand to commit himself to overt treason.
Origin
From Middle English overt, uverte (“open, uncovered; unfastened; accessible, unobstructed;From Middle English overt, uverte (“open, uncovered; unfastened; accessible, unobstructed; clear, manifest”), from Anglo-Norman overt, Middle French ouvert, Old French overt, ouvert, uvert (“opened”) (modern French ouvert), past participle of Anglo-Norman, Old French ovrir, ouvrir, uvrir (“to open”), from Late Latin operire, variant of Latin aperīre (“to open”), from aperiō (“to open, uncover”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; from”) + *h₂wer- (“to cover, shut”). The English word is a doublet of apert and ouvert.
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