TMI
See also: tmi
English
Noun
TMI (countable and uncountable, plural TMIs)
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of trimethylindium.
- (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.
- (psychology) Initialism of transmarginal inhibition.
- (video, color correction) Initialism of Temperature, Magenta/Green levels, and Intensity.
- (astrodynamics) Initialism of trans-Mars injection.
Proper noun
TMI
- Initialism of Three Mile Island.
Anagrams
Korean
Etymology
Borrowed from English TMI (“too much information”).
Pronunciation
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [tʰi e̞m a̠i]
- Phonetic hangul: [티 엠 아이]
Romanizations | |
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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)
- (Internet slang) unnecessary information that one does not need to know; extra trivia
Usage notes
- Not taboo information, unlike English.