ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overconcern

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Overconcern is a noun meaning excessive concern.

Meaning

excessive concern.

More Meanings

  1. (transitive) To concern excessively.

Example Sentences

Don't overconcern yourself with small details.
October 1967, Vladimir Nabokov, interview with Herbert Gold in Paris Review Now, if we want to pin down poshlost in contemporary writing, we must look for it in Freudian symbolism, moth-eaten mythologies, social comment, humanistic messages, political allegories, overconcern with class or race, and the journalistic generalities we all know.

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Related dictionary entries include overpreoccupation, overcaution, overconcentration, oversolicitude, overattention, overinvolvement.

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