Overconcern
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Overconcern is a noun meaning excessive concern.
Meaning
excessive concern.
More Meanings
- (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.
Word Forms
- overconcerns
- overconcerning
- overconcerned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overpreoccupation, overcaution, overconcentration, oversolicitude, overattention, overinvolvement.
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