Definition of hyperconscious
: intensely or excessively aware : acutely conscious
- How and how much someone eats is an incredibly loaded issue, especially these days, when it seems like everybody is hyperconscious of body image.
- —Cathi Hanauer
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hyperconsciousness
or hyper-consciousness noun-
- The painting's power owes much to the hyperconsciousness engendered by impending motherhood …
- —Mario Naves
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- A non-chemical hallucinogen, golf breaks the human body into components so strangely elongated and so tenuously linked, yet with anxious little bunches of hyper-consciousness and undue effort bulging here and there, along with rotating blind patches and a sort of cartilaginous euphoria—golf so transforms one's somatic sense, in short, that truth itself seems about to break through the exacerbated and as it were debunked fabric of mundane reality.
- —John Updike
