overthinking

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Presidential Election; if you're worried about vote hacking at this stage, you're probably overthinking things.

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The act of thinking too much about something.

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noun

The act of thinking too much about something.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for overthinking.

noun

The act of thinking too much about something.

Example sentences

Presidential Election; if you're worried about vote hacking at this stage, you're probably overthinking things.

Rank shouldn't be something to get confused about; if it is you're probably overthinking it.

If it seems like the instructions are too simple, you might be overthinking it.

I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking and/or considering things you don't care about as part of your threat model.

Since apparently we’re overthinking things, have you considered that your oversensitivity to minor perceived offenses is because you’ve never been punched?

I think you are overthinking the situation and looking to justify your feeling that the guy needs to be fired over reassigned.

Highly recommended as a distraction to an overthinking brain.

Again I think you are overthinking this.

I think you are massively overthinking this.

Quote examples

I agree that Joe is probably overthinking it, but at the same time, I would be turned off to find myself at a programming event that plays up my "maleness" by stuffing in lots of sports things;) On the other hand, I find flowers infinitely less annoying than football, so...