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overcommunication

overcommunication noun: excessive communication; communicating too much.

Noun

overcommunication (usually uncountable, plural overcommunications)

  1. (usually) Excessive 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
    • 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 of overcommunication

Forms of overcommunication

pluralovercommunications

Origin of overcommunication

From over- + communication.

Questions about overcommunication

What does overcommunication mean?
Overcommunication means excessive communication; communicating too much.
What part of speech is overcommunication?
Overcommunication is a noun.
What is the plural of overcommunication?
The plural of overcommunication is overcommunications.

Words near overcommunication in the dictionary

  1. overcommon
  2. overcommunicate
  3. overcommunicated
  4. overcommunicates
  5. overcommunicating
  6. overcommunication
  7. overcompaction
  8. overcompartmentalization
  9. overcompartmentalize
  10. overcompartmentalized
  11. overcompartmentalizes

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