overcaution

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ caution.

Noun

overcaution (uncountable)

  1. excessive caution

Verb

overcaution (third-person singular simple present overcautions, present participle overcautioning, simple past and past participle overcautioned)

  1. (transitive) To caution excessively.
    • 1966, Joy Paul Guilford, Ann Anastasi, Fields of Psychology, page 219:
      Perhaps more importantly, his father was absent from home most of the time and his mother added to his timidity by overcautioning him against getting hurt.
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