TMI

See also: tmi

English

Noun

TMI (countable and uncountable, plural TMIs)

  1. (organic chemistry) Initialism of trimethylindium.
  2. (informal, colloquial) Initialism of too much information.
    He began to talk about his last trip to the underwear store. I told him, TMI!
    • 2008 November 12, Alex Beam, “Thank you for oversharing”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 October 2021:
      TMI, as the youthful txters say? Too Much Information?
    • 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times[2], archived from the original on 7 July 2023:
      Hoover’s books go down like a T.M.I. Facebook confessional, rubbernecking you in from the first sentence. Certain patterns quickly emerge.
    • 2024 May 7, Nicholas Kristof, “Conversations and insights about the moment.”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
      Perhaps. But more likely, Daniels’s propensity for offering TMI — bolstered by easygoing quips that made the jury laugh — kept her basic story and her credibility intact.
  3. (psychology) Initialism of transmarginal inhibition.
  4. (video, color correction) Initialism of Temperature, Magenta/Green levels, and Intensity.
  5. (astrodynamics) Initialism of trans-Mars injection.
    Coordinate terms: TLI, MTO, LTO, GTO, GEO, GSO

Proper noun

TMI

  1. Initialism of Three Mile Island.

Anagrams

Korean

Etymology

Borrowed from English TMI (too much information).

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?ti em ai
Revised Romanization (translit.)?ti em ai
McCune–Reischauer?t'i em ai
Yale Romanization?thi eym ai

Noun

TMI • (ti em ai)

  1. (Internet slang) unnecessary information that one does not need to know; extra trivia

Usage notes

  • Not taboo information, unlike English.