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hypermoron

hypermoron noun: a person exhibiting a specific form of arrested development.

Noun

hypermoron (plural hypermorons)

  1. (obsolete) A person exhibiting a specific form of arrested development.
    • The proportion of hypermorons was found to be relatively large among manual laborers, domestic servants, army privates, sailors, school teachers, college instructors, telegraphers, stenographers, preachers, actors, farm hands, and small farmers. Attempts to elevate the harmless hypermoron from...1917, TEXACO STAR, Fools - Natural And Presumptuous, page 9
    • The cause is morinoia, habit-mindedness; the type of person is the moron, in three grades, the morose, the amiable and the hypermoron, or near-normal.1917, William Eastbrook Chancellor, The hypermoron as educator, School and society v. 5

Forms of hypermoron

pluralhypermorons

Origin of hypermoron

From hyper- + moron.

Questions about hypermoron

What does hypermoron mean?
Hypermoron means a person exhibiting a specific form of arrested development.
What part of speech is hypermoron?
Hypermoron is a noun.
What is the plural of hypermoron?
The plural of hypermoron is hypermorons.

Words near hypermoron in the dictionary

  1. hypermonosyllabic
  2. hypermonosyllable
  3. hypermonosyllables
  4. hypermoral
  5. hypermorbidity
  6. hypermoron
  7. hypermorons
  8. hypermorph
  9. hypermorphic
  10. hypermorphism
  11. hypermorphisms

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