overcommunication

noun

Excessive communication; communicating too much.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

nounovercommunication (usually uncountable, plural overcommunications)

plural overcommunications

  1. 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 Times
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    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 118

    Antonyms: undercommunication

Synonyms & antonyms

nounExcessive communication; communicating too much.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Englishcommunication
  8. Englishovercommunication

From over- + communication.

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