overcommunication

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Or is it a product of our drifting in an ocean of overcommunication?"
"Where communication is concerned, both overcommunication and undercommunication are undesirable. Overcommunication wastes both the sender's and receiver's time by transmitting more information than necessary."

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- English communication English overcommunication From over- + communication.

overcommunications (plural)

undercommunication

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