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hyperexpansive

hyperexpansive adjective: overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.

Adjective

hyperexpansive (not comparable)

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Words near hyperexpansive in the dictionary

  1. hyperexistent
  2. hyperexpandable
  3. hyperexpanded
  4. hyperexpansion
  5. hyperexpansions
  6. hyperexpansive
  7. hyperexplexia
  8. hyperexplicit
  9. hyperexplosion
  10. hyperexplosions
  11. hyperexponential

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