Definitions
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- noun See
hyperæsthesia .
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- noun
hyperesthesia
Etymologies
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hyper- + sensibility
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Examples
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And he saw now that the years of his independent poverty had done much towards the development of common-sense, and the extinction of that hypersensibility which had so marred his otherwise fine nature.
The Genius Margaret Horton Potter
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