hypergentrification

noun

Extreme, excessive gentrification.

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Meanings

nounhypergentrification (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExtreme, excessive gentrification.

    Furthermore, with hypergentrification, how many or us would be priced out of the neighborhood?

    1995, Mark Cramer, Funky Towns USA
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    Brooklyn accumulated its hipness, he says, by avoiding the “gauche” sort of hypergentrification that overwhelmed SoHo — perhaps because it had so much further to come.

    2009 March 15, Wm. Ferguson, “Where Is the New Brooklyn?”, in New York Times

Origin

From hyper- + gentrification.

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hypergentrification. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypergentrification

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hypergentrification,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypergentrification.

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