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hypervivid en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + vivid.

Meanings

1. Extremely vivid.
   • That consciousness knows nothing of a release from the devil; for, barring Luther and some of the medieval monks of hypervivid imagination, it knows nothing directlly about a devil to whom it can be in bondage. 1920, Professor William Marcellus Mcpheeters, Bibliotheca Sacra 1920-04: Volume 77, Issue 306, Dallas Theological Seminary, page 168:
   • Such hypnagogic hallucinations are images that are hypervivid. Psychodynamic possibilities associated with narcolepsy include dependency features of the personality, and separation events are highly implicated in the onset of this disorder. 1989, Anthony Burry, Henry Kellerman, Psychopathology and Differential Diagnosis: A Primer, Columbia University Press, page 295:
   • It is all just a digital swirl, a series of scripted animations and graphically sculptured landscapes that can seem hypervivid and at the same time totally surreal — just the sort of experimental and phantasmagoric place, you might argue, where an artist is likely to thrive. 2009 March 8, Sara Corbett, “Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar”, in New York Times:
   • Melodrama is, just as Frye says, a "dramatic vision," and that vision, in order to be true to itself, demands to be dramatized in 'hypervivid terms. 1985, Anne Dhu McLucas, John Milton Ward, Music and Context: Essays for John M. Ward, Dept. of Music, Harvard University, page 147:
   • It would take a person with a hypervivid imagination to guess the connection between the title and the story. 1921, Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association, The Moving Picture World, The World Photographic Publishing Company, page 756:
   • In the exactness of its rendering, we feel a lack of proportion analogous to the physical disproportion of the black birds. Why, we are driven to ask, is this trivial creature presented with such hypervivid literalness? 1986, Karl Kroeber, British Romantic Art, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 37:

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