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oversharing

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Oversharing is telling the internet more than anybody needed. Stop oversharing, a habit of oversharing, oversharing about her health.

The line moves with the audience and with the platform, which is why the same post is confessional in one place and ordinary in another. What makes it costly is permanence — an overshared detail is searchable years later by people who were never the audience.

Definitions of oversharing

  1. 1nounoversharingTelling the internet more than anybody needed.B2

    “Posting photos of your holiday is fine, but posting your medical results is oversharing.”

oversharing is a habit.

Where it comes from

overshare comes from over- + share.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Music, Art & Culture, News & Communication

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oversharing in the wild

  • Early episodes addressed topics such as oversharing (the topic for the first episode), the legalization of marijuana, belonging and identity, and sharing secrets online.

    Out in the Open (radio show)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.