overaccomplishment

noun

Excessive accomplishment.

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Meanings

nounoveraccomplishment (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExcessive accomplishment.

    By 35, Dr. Alice W. Flaherty had led a life of traditional overaccomplishment: undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, a Ph.D. in neuroscience from M.I.T., research in movement disorders, articles in leading neurological journals.

    2009 March 17, Elissa Ely, M.D., “From Bipolar Darkness, the Empathy to Be a Doctor”, in New York Times

Origin

From over- + accomplishment.

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Chicago

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