hyperauthentic

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adjective

Very highly authentic.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

adjectivehyperauthentic (comparative more hyperauthentic, superlative most hyperauthentic)

comparative more hyperauthentic · superlative most hyperauthentic

  1. Very highly authentic.

    Isn’t this hyperauthentic narrative of Vietnamese victimhood just the sort of thing calculated to tug at the heartstrings — and wallets — of liberal American readers?

    2008 June 8, Hari Kunzru, “Outside Ethnicity”, in New York Times
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    To overcome that lingering legacy, the younger Bush was all but compelled to become almost hyperauthentic in his Texan identity, and it was a role he took to with much gusto.

    2004, John Karaagac, The fate of the father: the Bush policy paradox, page 23

Origin

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APA

hyperauthentic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperauthentic

MLA

“hyperauthentic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperauthentic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hyperauthentic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperauthentic.

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