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hyperreligiosity

hyperreligiosity noun: an extreme religious mania sometimes associated with mental conditions.

Noun

hyperreligiosity (uncountable)

  1. An extreme religious mania sometimes associated with mental conditions.
    • If they suffer from temporal lobe epilepsy, they will show signs of hyperreligiosity, an overexcitement of the brain tissue that leads sufferers to believe they are conversing with God.2008 May 13, David Brooks, “The Neural Buddhists”, in New York Times

Origin of hyperreligiosity

From hyper- + religiosity.

Questions about hyperreligiosity

What does hyperreligiosity mean?
Hyperreligiosity means an extreme religious mania sometimes associated with mental conditions.
What part of speech is hyperreligiosity?
Hyperreligiosity is a noun.

Words near hyperreligiosity in the dictionary

  1. hyperregulator
  2. hyperregulators
  3. hyperregulatory
  4. hyperrelativism
  5. hyperrelativistic
  6. hyperreligiosity
  7. hyperreninaemia
  8. hyperreninaemic
  9. hyperreninemia
  10. hyperreninemic
  11. hyperreninism

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