overcontrol

Excessive control.

Noun

  1. Excessive control.
    • After a stressful event, the histrionic patient often manifests swings from rigid overcontrol to uncontrolled intrusions and emotional repetition. - 2011, Mardi Jon Horowitz, Stress Response Syndromes:

Origin

From over- + control.

Verb

  1. To control to too great a degree.
    • She’s not fancy or overcontrolled: she sounds relaxed but alert, and a slight nasal flatness in her voice humanizes her, makes her touch the ground. - 2007 January 8, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:

Forms

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