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Definition of Overthought
1. overthink [v] - See also: overthink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overthought
Literary usage of Overthought
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"two strains of thought running together and like counterpointed; the overthought
that which everybody, editors, see [...] and which might for instance be ..."
2. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"If not, as George Herbert calls the Sabbath, "the fruit of this, the next world's
bud," it ought to bring in the influence of the overthought and encourage ..."
3. Potter's American Monthly (1880)
"... coupled with the child's overthought. Boys were in the habit of using (he
phrase suck-in as synonymous with a cheat, a deception, When I was a child of ..."
4. Memorial and Biographical Sketches by James Freeman Clarke (1878)
"overthought has paralyzed the will-power in Hamlet. He is in a condition of moral
catalepsy ; seeing and knowing everything, but incapable of motion, ..."
5. Memorial and Biographical Sketches by James Freeman Clarke (1878)
"overthought has paralyzed the will-power in Hamlet. He is in a condition of moral
catalepsy; seeing and knowing everything, but incapable of motion, ..."
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