Meanings
plural overcommunications
- uncountableusuallyExcessive communication; communicating too much.
Or is it a product of our drifting in an ocean of overcommunication?
2007 January 1, “Is It Who We Are, or How We Act? (5 Letters)”, in New York Times1 more example
Where communication is concerned, both overcommunication and undercommunication are undesirable. Overcommunication wastes both the sender's and receiver's time by transmitting more information than necessary.
2022, William Singleton, Musings on Leadership: It's for Everyone and Everywhere in Life, PQA United, →ISBN, page 118Antonyms: undercommunication
Synonyms & antonyms
nounExcessive communication; communicating too much.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Germanic*uber
- Old Englishofer-
- Middle Englishover-
- Englishover-
- Englishcommunication
- Englishovercommunication
From over- + communication.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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