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hypergentrification

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Etymology

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From hyper- +‎ gentrification.

Noun

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hypergentrification (uncountable)

  1. Extreme, excessive gentrification.
    • 1995, Mark Cramer, Funky Towns USA:
      Furthermore, with hypergentrification, how many or us would be priced out of the neighborhood?
    • 2009 March 15, Wm. Ferguson, “Where Is the New Brooklyn?”, in New York Times[1]:
      Brooklyn accumulated its hipness, he says, by avoiding the “gauche” sort of hypergentrification that overwhelmed SoHo — perhaps because it had so much further to come.