Meaning

(psychology) Overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion..

Definitions by Sense

1. (psychology) Overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.
2. Having an extreme tendency to expand.
3. (mathematics) Pertaining to a class of operators closely related to the theory of negative definite functions on abelian semigroups.

Example Sentences

Fanaticism, however, chooses no favorites, as Hoffer (1951) concludes, and so we presently turn to hyperexpansive prejudice.

In cases of on-going, chronic trauma, on the other hand, Schneider suggests that the child may become unable to counteract, and thereby conform to their hyperconstrictive or hyperexpansive pressures.

Whether an individual in HIV-related psychotherapy manifests a hyperexpansive or hyperconstricted existential position vis-à-vis death anxiety, the therapeutic goal is to bring about movement to a more centered position in which the individual is able to accept the seriousness of the illness while also continuing to go about living as fully as possible within the constraints of the disease.

Further, these fragments in 4Q158 are not merely harmonistic, but also hyperexpansive.

For all the public focus on terrorism after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, resource constraints emerged as one of the most important strategic challenges for a hyperexpansive American security posture.

The sensation of a hyperexpansive, globalized, and omnipotent form of power, the new Leviathan of Empire, is counterbalanced by the inherent possibilities, or even revolutionary potentials, within the monster itself.

As a consequence hyperexpansive multiplication operators are investigated..

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Use hyperexpansive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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