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hyperexistence

hyperexistence noun: the state of being hyperexistent.

Noun

hyperexistence (uncountable)

  1. The state of being hyperexistent.
    • Thought is habitually "structuralist," if one can be allowed to employ an overworked term which has therefore become almost useless. It means that our understanding of anything whatever rests exclusively on the pairs of opposites of which the understood quality happens to be an element. In other...1989, Leszek Kolakowski, The Presence of Myth, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 61-62
    • It might have been less discomfiting had I been able to see the viruses that were wrecking la Reine's machine code. If they held manifested themselves as visible predators and tangible parasites they too would have had that superior solidity, that imperious hyperexistence, and her death would then...2002, Brian Michael Stableford, The Omega Expedition, TOR, →ISBN, pages 464-465

Origin of hyperexistence

From hyper- + existence.

Questions about hyperexistence

What does hyperexistence mean?
Hyperexistence means the state of being hyperexistent.
What part of speech is hyperexistence?
Hyperexistence is a noun.

Words near hyperexistence in the dictionary

  1. hyperexciting
  2. hyperexcrete
  3. hyperexcreted
  4. hyperexcretes
  5. hyperexcretion
  6. hyperexistence
  7. hyperexistent
  8. hyperexpandable
  9. hyperexpanded
  10. hyperexpansion
  11. hyperexpansions

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