Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Morbid acuteness.
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- noun sensory performance finer than the receptor grain
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Examples
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For those who might be less familiar with it, hyperempiria is a focused trance modality similiar in many respects to traditional hypnosis with hyperacuity or heightened sensory exprience.
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The hyperacuity of his ear and his unusual retention of sounds he never stopped performing the earliest songs and spirituals he heard, and as a mature writer he could reproduce entire blocks of spoken conversation may have been a vestige of his fitful early months.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The hyperacuity of his ear and his unusual retention of sounds he never stopped performing the earliest songs and spirituals he heard, and as a mature writer he could reproduce entire blocks of spoken conversation may have been a vestige of his fitful early months.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Will you go into more detail about what you do i.e. hyperacuity and/or hyperemperic intensity - they sound very sexy!
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For those who might be less familiar with it, hyperempiria is a focused trance modality similiar in many respects to traditional hypnosis with hyperacuity or heightened sensory exprience.
Life of Brian: 2005
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Westheimer G, McKee SP (1977) Spatial configurations for visual hyperacuity.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anna Oleksiak et al. 2010
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It is probable that some insignificant mark has, owing to his visual hyperacuity, fixed the image in the subject's brain. "
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