overinterestedness

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Noun

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overinterestedness (plural not attested)

  1. The quality of being excessively interested in something.
    • 1913, William Byron Forbush, The Coming Generation, page 63:
      The mother's life tends to be crowded with an overinterestedness in things that put the children in a secondary place, and the father returns at night to his family physically and mentally too tired to enjoy them.
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