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Etymology

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From over- +‎ cerebral.

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Adjective

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overcerebral (comparative more overcerebral, superlative most overcerebral)

  1. Excessively cerebral.
    • 1984, Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism: An Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin, and ...[1]:
      As sensitive artists and overcerebral intellectuals, feeling that they were unable to function in the social world — unlike the practical, sober bourgeois.