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hypervisibility en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + visibility.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being hypervisible.
    • Students who experience hypervisibility feel pressure from their peers and professors to be a model minority and a spokesperson for all that hold that identity (Corbin, 2018). 2023, Eleni Meletiadou, Handbook of Research on Exploring Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Through an Intersectional Lens, page 427:
    • Her feeling of hypervisibility persisted all the way through breakfast and throughout the morning. 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 386:
    • Hypervisibility leads by a straight line to forms of self-scrutiny explicitly oriented toward social conformity while undermining visibility in its more genuine forms. 2005, Paul Fairfield, Public/private, page 147: