overcivilized

adjective

over·​civ·​i·​lized ˌō-vər-ˈsi-və-ˌlīzd 

: 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

Word History

First Known Use

1822, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for overcivilized

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