Overcompetitiveness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being overcompetitive. uncountable

    "Willie Dick has all the usual bad qualities of very small, very intelligent men: vanity, arrogance, overcompetitiveness, a long memory for injuries and slights."

Example

More examples

"Willie Dick has all the usual bad qualities of very small, very intelligent men: vanity, arrogance, overcompetitiveness, a long memory for injuries and slights."

Etymology

From overcompetitive + -ness.

More for "overcompetitiveness"

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.