SINCE 1828
overcivilized
adjective
over·civ·i·lized
| \ ˌō-vər-ˈsi-və-ˌlīzd
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Definition of overcivilized
: civilized to an excessive degree
… the idea held in some of the upper classes that America was somehow soft—"overcivilized," as Theodore Roosevelt put it.— Evan Thomas … the social drapery commonly muffling, in an overcivilized age, the sharpness of human contacts.— Henry James
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