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overcommunication

noun

Etymology

From over- + communication.

  1. derived from commūnicātiōnem
  2. derived from communicacion
  3. inherited from comunicacioun
  4. prefixed as overcommunication — “over + communication”

Definitions

  1. Excessive communication

    Excessive communication; communicating too much.

    • Or is it a product of our drifting in an ocean of overcommunication?
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overcommunication. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA