TMI

See also: tmi

English

Noun

TMI (countable and uncountable, plural TMIs)

  1. (chemistry) Initialism of trimethylindium.
  2. (informal) 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, →ISSN:
      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:
      Hoover’s books go down like a T.M.I. Facebook confessional, rubbernecking you in from the first sentence. Certain patterns quickly emerge.
  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

Anagrams

Korean

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

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

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

Usage notes

  • Not taboo information, unlike English.
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