tooconcentrated

Tooconcentrated is an informal adjective used to describe something that has an excessive concentration beyond what is safe, appropriate, or intended. It can refer to chemical solutions that require dilution, as well as to consumer products, foods and beverages, and even ideas or media that feel densely packed with information or flavor.

The form is a blending of too and concentrated, and appears in online discussions and blogs more often than in standard dictionaries. Variants include too concentrated and too-concentrated, and some writers seal it as tooconcentrated for emphasis or in file names, captions, or hashtags.

Examples of usage include: The cleaner was too concentrated for ordinary use and should be diluted. The article was too concentrated on statistics, with little context. The juice tasted too concentrated and needed dilution. In these cases, the term signals that a substance or presentation exceeds a recommended, safe, or balanced level.

Because it is informal, tooconcentrated is usually avoided in formal writing. It shares semantics with overconcentration in chemistry and with the concept of dilution. See also concentration, dilution, overconcentration.