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overconnectedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From overconnected + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality or condition of being overconnected.
    • This Israeli motorist with a cell phone in each ear, driving with his elbows, gets my vote as the poster boy for the social disease of the next millennium -- overconnectedness. 1999 August 10, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Y2K Social Disease”, in The New York Times:
    • The novels are set in the 1960s, partly, Smiley says, because she didn't want the overconnectedness of today's mobile phone and Facebook generation […] 2011 September 10, Fiona Gruber, “Writing a horse”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
    • The pundits who opined about the negative effects of information overload, of overconnectedness and too much choice, of a society being entertained and digitized to death, did not have it quite right. 2014, Kevin Morris, White Man's Problems, Sweet Devil Press, →ISBN: