Meanings
- uncountableExtreme zealotry.
1 more example
Even before I spoke with the political scientists, Nerst contended that a better understanding of today’s online argumentation would help people cope with its excesses. “Most people really are tired of shouting matches and want more nuance (according to surveys etc.),” he wrote to me, “and I hope we will develop some cultural immunity towards ragebait and hyperzealotry soon. […]”
2019 April 7, Jesse Singal, “The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Apr 2019
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úp
- Proto-Indo-European*upér
- Proto-Hellenic*hupér
- Ancient Greekῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
- Ancient Greekῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
- Englishhyper-
- Englishzealotry
- Englishhyperzealotry
Cite this entry
hyperzealotry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperzealotry
“hyperzealotry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperzealotry. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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