TMI

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English[edit]

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Noun[edit]

TMI (countable and uncountable, plural TMIs)

  1. (chemistry) Initialism of trimethylindium.
  2. (informal) Initialism of too much information.
    He began to talk about his last trip to the underwear store. I told him, TMI!
    • 2008 November 12, Alex Beam, “Thank you for oversharing”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      TMI, as the youthful txters say? Too Much Information?
    • 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times[2]:
      Hoover’s books go down like a T.M.I. Facebook confessional, rubbernecking you in from the first sentence. Certain patterns quickly emerge.
  3. (psychology) Initialism of transmarginal inhibition.
  4. (video, color correction) Initialism of Temperature, Magenta/Green levels, and Intensity.
  5. (astrodynamics) Initialism of trans-Mars injection.
    Coordinate terms: TLI, MTO, LTO, GTO, GEO, GSO

Anagrams[edit]

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English TMI (too much information).

Pronunciation[edit]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?ti em ai
Revised Romanization (translit.)?ti em ai
McCune–Reischauer?t'i em ai
Yale Romanization?thi eym ai

Noun[edit]

TMI

  1. (Internet slang) unnecessary information that one does not need to know

Usage notes[edit]

  • Not taboo information, unlike English.