overconcern
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 23
- Letters
- 11
Definition of overconcern
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)excessive concern
“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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noun
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(uncountable)excessive concern
“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.”
verb
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(transitive)To concern excessively.
“Don't overconcern yourself with small details.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From over- + concern.
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