overshare
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- 15
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 9
Definition of overshare
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To share too much or in excess.
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verb
- (transitive)To share too much or in excess.
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(intransitive)To offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others, now especially on social media.
“"I've been told by certain people that I have a tendency to overshare with strangers. I hope I haven't bored you with the details of my life.”
“To be clear, I love Twitter. It is the culture of oversharing and status anxiety that disturbs me. And that is inseparable from the grip of social media.”
“More often than not, the person does know the “offending” parent and has been pushed to the edge. If a submitter says, “This person never usually overshares,” I’ll take that into consideration and might not run the submission. But most of the time, that’s not the case. Once a poop picture oversharer, always a poop picture oversharer.”
“I’ve overshared about my mother in print. Let me briefly reshare. It’s complicated.”
“Most parents do not overshare online because they are malicious; they simply have not fully considered the significance of their child’s digital footprint.”
noun
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An instance of sharing or divulging too much.
“In light-hearted cases, the response to an overshare may be the collective online “Ewwww!” and some online needling.”
“The sore throat was because of his late night and deep connection with another woman, which he confessed to Zerrin in an honest but unsolicited overshare.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From over- + share.
Words you can make from overshare
200+ playable · top: OVERHEARS (15 pts)
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