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Etymology edit

over- +‎ communicate

Verb edit

overcommunicate (third-person singular simple present overcommunicates, present participle overcommunicating, simple past and past participle overcommunicated)

  1. To communicate too much.
    • 0200 August 30, Adam Bryant, quoting Deborah Dunsire, “Stepping Out of the Sandbox”, in New York Times[1]:
      So I think I’ve learned to overcommunicate in a way that I never did before.
    • 2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting David Priest, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      “You have to overcommunicate to an incredible degree,” Dr. Priest said, “because we still get questions on things that I think, ‘This was well-known 18 months ago.’

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