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hyperobservant en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + observant. First used in the 1980s.

Meanings

  1. Extremely observant.
    • When her best friend, Hope Weaves, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyperobservant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. 2006, Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 373:
    • Love, though, made Dudley hyperobservant. 1994, Erica Arbeel, Women Like Us, Ticknor and Fields, page 42:
    • And the next time you're out in public, start becoming hyperobservant; look at people's faces and apply the principles you've learned here. 1993, Dick Gautier, Drawing and Cartooning 1,001 Faces, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 22:
    • The hyperobservant of you may have noticed I recently posted asking questions about moving from plus.net to virgin media cable broadband. 2007, Ade <madge@poohfan.com>, uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet), retrieved 26 May 2017:

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Relateds

hyperobservance