hyperaware

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ aware

Adjective

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, →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, →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.

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