Home › Words › O › overcautionovercautionovercaution · noun — excessive caution.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, overcaution ranks #16,787 of 42,820 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom over- + caution.nounexcessive cautionverbTo caution excessively.e.g.“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.” — 1966, Joy Paul Guilford, Ann Anastasi, Fields of Psychology, page 219:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).