hyperpresence

hyperpresence noun: strong presence; the quality of being hyperpresent.

Noun

hyperpresence (uncountable)

Strong presence; the quality of being hyperpresent.
- When the hierarchical organization of space that privileges the eye and vision, this perspective simulation - for it is merely a simulacrum - disintegrates, something else emerges; this we express as a kind of touch, for lack of a better term, a tactile hyperpresence of things, “as if we could...1988, Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 75
- An orchestration of affect laces through the textual source, affects following one another or overlapping, integrating all the hyperpresences at the level of consciousness.1996, Silvan Solomon Tomkins, Knowing Feeling: Affect, Script, and Psychotherapy, Norton, page 341

Heine criticizes this lack of differentiation, this hyperpresence of the effect in its cause, in the following description of the early Liszt.1998, Susan Bernstein, Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century: Performing Music and Language in Heine, Liszt, and Baudelaire, Stanford...
He wouldn’t even have needed to speak about skies and angels, let alone hyperpresences.2008, Robert Dessaix, Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives, Picador, →ISBN, page 159:

From hyper- + presence.

What does hyperpresence mean?: Hyperpresence means strong presence; the quality of being hyperpresent.
How do you use hyperpresence in a sentence?: Heine criticizes this lack of differentiation, this hyperpresence of the effect in its cause, in the following description of the early Liszt.
What part of speech is hyperpresence?: Hyperpresence is a noun.

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