overcommunication
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + communication.
Noun
[edit]overcommunication (uncountable)
- Excessive communication; communicating too much.
- Antonym: undercommunication
- 2007 January 1, “Is It Who We Are, or How We Act? (5 Letters)”, in New York Times[1]:
- Or is it a product of our drifting in an ocean of overcommunication?
- 2022, William Singleton, Musings on Leadership: It's for Everyone and Everywhere in Life, PQA United, →ISBN, page 118:
- 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.