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- noun The quality of being
overwhelmed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And, yeah, I hear you about the disorganization and overwhelmedness.
kateelliott: the Values of the Humanities, and SFF kateelliott 2009
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Best wishes, Jeffrey ps I can totally relate to your decription of the overwhelmedness.
Something Else to Do : Rachel Zucker : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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A mixture of depression, overwhelmedness, loneliness and a yearning for something. sing - scream clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2004
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We need "guidance" to buy gifts because there is too much to choose from; our sense of overwhelmedness at the vast array has become a pathology to be sorted through.
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But he must end this state of overwhelmedness at grand surroundings.
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But he must end this state of overwhelmedness at grand surroundings.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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I feel, instead, a depression borne of mommy-guilt and sheer overwhelmedness.
One More Thing 2009
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(I've been pretty much flying by the seat of my pants, which lends itself to the overall overwhelmedness …)
erin-go-blog! 2009
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