Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Very highly
civilized .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hypercivilized.
Examples
-
The problem here is not a patronizingly clichéd representation of an ostensibly primitive people; the problem is the movie's intellectually incoherent portrayal of its fictional heroes as both admirably precivilized and admirably hypercivilized, as atechnological and highly technologized.
-
The problem here is not a patronizingly clichéd representation of an ostensibly primitive people; the problem is the movie's intellectually incoherent portrayal of its fictional heroes as both admirably precivilized and admirably hypercivilized, as atechnological and highly technologized.
-
They saw blacks as the mythical noble savages, free from hypercivilized inhibition, their natural potency unimpaired.
Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008
-
The founders of the dynasties are all brave and successful warriors, who are superior to the cant of a hypercivilized state of society, which covers declining vigor and marks the first phase of effeteness, and who see that as long as there are human passions they may be molded by genius to make the many serve the few and to build up an autocracy.
China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
-
The ’sixties “opened a jeweled door into degradation,” starting the descent “from hypercivilized Byzantine luxury straight into the state of nature.”
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
-
The ’sixties “opened a jeweled door into degradation,” starting the descent “from hypercivilized Byzantine luxury straight into the state of nature.”
-
You opened a jeweled door into degradation, from hypercivilized Byzantine luxury straight into the state of nature. "
Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.