英和和英

語源

overconnected +‎ -ness

名詞

overconnectedness (uncountable)

1. The quality or condition of being overconnected.
   • 1999, Thomas L. Friedman, "The Y2K Social Disease", The New York Times, 10 August 1999:

     This Israeli motorist with a cell phone in each ear, driving with his elbows, gets my vote as the poster boy for the social disease of the next millennium -- overconnectedness.

   • 2011, Fiona Gruber, "Writing a horse", Sydney Morning Herald, 10 September 2011:

     The novels are set in the 1960s, partly, Smiley says, because she didn't want the overconnectedness of today's mobile phone and Facebook generation […]

   • 2014, Kevin Morris, White Man's Problems, Sweet Devil Press (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     The pundits who opined about the negative effects of information overload, of overconnectedness and too much choice, of a society being entertained and digitized to death, did not have it quite right.