overconcern

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noun

excessive concern

“Don't overconcern yourself with small details.”

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounoverconcern (uncountable)
  1. uncountableexcessive concern
    1 more example

    October 1967, Vladimir Nabokov, interview with Herbert Gold in Paris Review Now, if we want to pin down poshlost in contemporary writing, we must look for it in Freudian symbolism, moth-eaten mythologies, social comment, humanistic messages, political allegories, overconcern with class or race, and the journalistic generalities we all know.

verboverconcern (third-person singular simple present overconcerns, present participle overconcerning, simple past and past participle overconcerned)

present singular third person overconcerns · participle present overconcerning · participle past overconcerned · past overconcerned

  1. transitiveTo concern excessively.

    Don't overconcern yourself with small details.

Origin

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APA

overconcern. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overconcern

MLA

“overconcern.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overconcern. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overconcern,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overconcern.

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