overload
n. C / Un. a situation where you have too much of something to handle at once. It often describes having too much information or too much work for a system to process.
n. an excessive amount of something that surpasses the capacity of a person or system to process it. Frequently used in technical contexts to describe electrical or computational stress.
I am suffering from information overload after that long meeting.
The server crashed because of a sudden traffic overload during the holiday sale.
Cognitive overload occurs when the amount of incoming information exceeds the capacity of working memory, leading to a significant decrease in learning efficiency and decision-making quality.
Both countable and uncountable; often appears in the compound 'information overload'.