How to say "overview" in Japanese

• 概要がいようCommon
  nounCovers the basic sense of 'overview': the gist or broad outline of something such as a plan, report or project, given without detail. The word you want when asking for the big picture.
  ここまでで、この時期じきの政治せいじ不安ふあん増大ぞうだいに関かんする概要がいようを述のべてきた。↗

  Up to this point I have presented an overview of the growth of political unrest in the period.
• 概説がいせつJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbAn 'overview' with the nuance of a rough explanatory account: a survey that lays out a whole subject in broad strokes, the sort of overview an introductory lecture or text gives.

Use 概要 for an overview as the gist or main points of something concrete like a plan or report; use 概説 when the overview is a rough explanatory account or survey of a whole subject.

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• 概要がいようoutline
• 概説がいせつoverview
• 全体像ぜんたいぞうcomplete picture