overshare
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.83 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others, now especially on social media.
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- ""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."
- "In light-hearted cases, the response to an overshare may be the collective online “Ewwww!” and some online needling."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *(s)koréh₂ Proto-Germanic *skarō Proto-West Germanic *skaru Old English sċearu Middle English schare English share English overshare From over- + share.