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hyperaware en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English aware English hyperaware From hyper- + aware.

Meanings

1. Extremely aware; much more alert to stimuli than normal.
   • Suddenly I was hyperaware of everything around me.
   • For example, the smoker may become hyperaware of all or part of his body, of all or part of his mind. 1974, Joseph Berke, Calvin C. Hernton, The Cannabis Experience, →ISBN, page 95:
   • It is all played absolutely straight, and yet also with a cake-icing of irony, almost like a play by Ernie Wise: observing the decorum, yet also hyperaware of both the surreal bizarreness of its conventions and the deadly seriousness in which they are traditionally represented. 2022 August 24, Peter Bradshaw, “Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony”, in The Guardian:
   • But Ms. Wurtzel herself is hyperaware of the narcissistic nature of her problems, and her willingness to expose herself—narcissism and all—ultimately wins the reader over. 1994 September 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Examined Life Is Not Worth Living Either”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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