overdeliberation

noun

Deliberating too much.

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Meanings

nounoverdeliberation (uncountable)
  1. uncountableDeliberating too much.

    His behavior is characterized by overdeliberation and extreme caution.

    1913, William Alanson White, The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases
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    The other a conservative, sensory child with a tendency to overdeliberation.

    1908, American Motherhood - Volume 26; Volume 43, page 422

    This, however, only encouraged in the quartet a strain of overdeliberation.

    2011, Allan Brown, Nileism: The Strange Course of the Blue Nile, →ISBN

Origin

From over- + deliberate + -ion.

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