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Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
In a culture in which the words "of our time" have become synonymous with "of the past year or so," overhype --a noun and verb meaning an excessive amount of hype , a term which itself connotes an excessive amount of orchestrated publicity--has evolved to describe one of the distinctive characteristics of our time.
As far as I can tell, however, the word overhype was nowhere to be found.
(Note: An alternative etymology of hype would derive the word from the Greek hyper , meaning "over," so that to overhype something is to "over-over" it--more straightforwardly logical but not nearly as evocative, in my view.)
Overhype implies there is some normal level of "hypeness," like body temperature or blood pressure, which in healthy individuals and societies maintains a certain constancy, but which can rise or fall to dangerous levels.