Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hyperaware

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables: hy-per-aware
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Extremely aware; much more alert to stimuli than normal.

Example Sentences

"Suddenly I was hyperaware of everything around me."
"For example, the smoker may become hyperaware of all or part of his body, of all or part of his mind."
"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."
"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English aware English hyperaware From hyper- + aware.

Inflected Forms

more hyperaware (comparative) most hyperaware (superlative)

Derived Forms

hyperawareness

Questions

What does hyperaware mean?: Extremely aware; much more alert to stimuli than normal.
Where does hyperaware come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English aware English hyperaware From hyper- + aware.

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