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hypergentrification en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + gentrification.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Extreme, excessive gentrification.
    • Furthermore, with hypergentrification, how many or us would be priced out of the neighborhood? 1995, Mark Cramer, Funky Towns USA:
    • Brooklyn accumulated its hipness, he says, by avoiding the “gauche” sort of hypergentrification that overwhelmed SoHo — perhaps because it had so much further to come. 2009 March 15, Wm. Ferguson, “Where Is the New Brooklyn?”, in New York Times: