Usually means: Excessive information exceeds processing capacity.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word information overload:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. information overload: Merriam-Webster
  2. information overload: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. information overload: Collins English Dictionary
  4. information-overload: Wordnik
  5. information overload: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. information overload: Wiktionary
  7. information overload: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. information overload: Dictionary.com
  9. Information Overload (album), Information Overload, Information overload: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. information overload: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. information overload: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. information overload: Netlingo
  3. information overload: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. information overload: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. information overload: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. information overload: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (information overload)

noun:  The inability to process everything one hears and sees; the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results.

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