hyperexpansive
hyperexpansive adjective: overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.
Adjective
hyperexpansive (not comparable)
- Overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.
- Fanaticism, however, chooses no favorites, as Hoffer (1951) concludes, and so we presently turn to hyperexpansive prejudice.1990, Kirk J. Schneider, The paradoxical self
- In cases of on-going, chronic trauma, on the other hand, Schneider suggests that the child may become unable to counteract, and thereby conform to their hyperconstrictive or hyperexpansive pressures.2003, Mick Cooper, Existential Therapies, →ISBN, page 86
- Having an extreme tendency to expand.
- Further, these fragments in 4Q158 are not merely harmonistic, but also hyperexpansive.2008, Sidnie White Crawford, Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times, →ISBN, page 53
- For all the public focus on terrorism after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, resource constraints emerged as one of the most important strategic challenges for a hyperexpansive American security posture.2016, Jeremi Suri, Benjamin Valentino, Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy, →ISBN
- Pertaining to a class of operators closely related to the theory of negative definite functions on abelian semigroups.
- As a consequence hyperexpansive multiplication operators are investigated..2015, Yousef Estaremi, “Unbounded weighted conditional type operators on L^p spaces”, in arXiv
Origin of hyperexpansive
From hyper- + expansive.
Questions about hyperexpansive
- What does hyperexpansive mean?
- Hyperexpansive means overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.
- What part of speech is hyperexpansive?
- Hyperexpansive is an adjective.
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