overcaution

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ caution.

Noun

overcaution (uncountable)

1. excessive caution

Verb

overcaution (third-person singular simple present overcautions, present participle overcautioning, simple past and past participle overcautioned)

1. (transitive) To caution excessively.
   • 1966, Joy Paul Guilford, Ann Anastasi, Fields of Psychology, page 219:

     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.