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hyperaware

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Etymology

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From hyper- +‎ aware.

Adjective

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hyperaware (comparative more hyperaware, superlative most hyperaware)

  1. Extremely aware; much more alert to stimuli than normal.
    Suddenly I was hyperaware of everything around me.
    • 1974, Joseph Berke, Calvin C. Hernton, The Cannabis Experience[1], →ISBN, page 95:
      For example, the smoker may become hyperaware of all or part of his body, of all or part of his mind.
    • 1994 September 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Examined Life Is Not Worth Living Either”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      But Ms. Wurtzel herself is hyperaware of the narcissistic nature of her problems, and her willingness to expose herself—narcissism and all—ultimately wins the reader over.
    • 2022 August 24, Peter Bradshaw, “Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony”, in The Guardian[3]:
      It is all played absolutely straight, and yet also with a cake-icing of irony, almost like a play by Ernie Wise: observing the decorum, yet also hyperaware of both the surreal bizarreness of its conventions and the deadly seriousness in which they are traditionally represented.

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