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hypercivilized en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + civilized.

Meanings

1. Very highly civilized.
   • A fascination with the natural world — which seems at once fragile and enduring, forbiddingly strange and intimately known — is an obvious response to, and escape from, our hypercivilized, technology-saturated, globalized habitations. 2009 March 27, A. O. Scott, “Film Festival: The City as Bane, Nature as Balm”, in New York Times:

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