Synonyms for overreaction
over·re·ac·tion

Princeton's WordNet

1. overreactionnoun

   an excessive reaction; a reaction with inappropriate emotional behavior

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1. List of paraphrases for "overreaction":

   overshooting, over-reaction, reaction

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1. Dan Ivascyn:

   We do think in certain areas of the corporate credit markets that people have been overreacting and as a result, we are responding, we do think there’s been an overreaction in certain corporate credits and we are there to bid bonds which is not too dissimilar to what we did last year when there was a lot of volatility in Emerging Markets, particularly in Russia.

2. Aaron Jett:

   It should be no secret now that China is trying to move from a manufacturing to a consumer economy. That’s been in the news for a while. This is a huge overreaction, the consumer economy continues to improve in China. On such a big base now, it just can’t grow at 10% forever.

3. Hans Kristensen:

   We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis.

4. Paul Barrett:

   The problem with turning to the government to regulate more aggressively is that it could easily, and probably would, result in an overreaction by the companies to avoid whatever punishment was put in place, that would interfere with the free expression that is one of the benefits of social media… If the platforms do this work themselves, they can do it more precisely and do it without government overreach.

5. Rory McIlroy:

   Today's overreaction could look like tomorrow's underreaction.