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hypervaluation en · NOUN

Etymology

From hypervalue (“to value extremely highly or closely”) + -ation, or equivalently, hyper- (“over, above, beyond, excessive”) + valuation.

Meanings

1. (countable) An excessive estimation of the worth of something; extreme valuation.
   • The hypervaluations of many new economy firms that made no business profits whatsoever opened up the possibility that financial asset appreciation might delink altogether from business profit making. 2022, Jonathan Levy, Ages of American Capitalism, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 645:
   • Internet stocks whose hypervaluations have given them the currency to make rapid acquisitions to build market share while running deeper deficits have been the exception. 2020, Richard E. Ottoo, Valuation of Corporate Growth Opportunities, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, pages 18–19:
2. (uncountable) The state of something being valued extremely highly.
   • At the same time, at a deeper level, the cartoons made fun of the hypervaluation of maleness on which machismo in Ecuador depended. 2002, Anthropology Beyond Culture, Berg Publishers, →ISBN, page 18:
   • This sort of hypervaluation of sickness and suffering would indeed have undermined the rule of the monastery. It is difficult to imagine how a monastery could function in an orderly fashion with members bringing conditions such as this upon themselves. 2005, Andrew Todd Crislip, From Monastery to Hospital, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 97:
   • For example, the hypervaluation of Jackie O.'s pearls is causally anomalous in that it cannot be explained in terms of more typical determinants of value, such as the materials or their aesthetic value. 2005, Susan A. Gelman, The Essential Child, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

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Synonyms

overvaluation