Meanings
nounoverinterestedness (plural not attested)
- no pluralThe quality of being excessively interested in something.
The mother's life tends to be crowded with an overinterestedness in things that put the children in a secondary place, and the father returns at night to his family physically and mentally too tired to enjoy them.
1913, William Byron Forbush, The Coming Generation, page 63
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