hypercivilized

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adjective

Very highly civilized.

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Meanings

adjectivehypercivilized (comparative more hypercivilized, superlative most hypercivilized)

comparative more hypercivilized · superlative most hypercivilized

  1. Very highly civilized.

    A fascination with the natural world — which seems at once fragile and enduring, forbiddingly strange and intimately known — is an obvious response to, and escape from, our hypercivilized, technology-saturated, globalized habitations.

    2009 March 27, A. O. Scott, “Film Festival: The City as Bane, Nature as Balm”, in New York Times

Origin

From hyper- + civilized.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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