hyperadult

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having excessively or inappropriately adult characteristics.

   • As matters now stand, "programs" too often result in the formation of individuals whose intelligence may be hyperadult, but whose affective and moral sensibility is childish.
   • It was slow enough now that I could take a good look at her — I couldn't decide her age, but there seemed to be a youthfulness to her that belied her hyperadult authority.
   • Her students - children living in a hyperadult world where playground disputes were settled with 9 mms - eventually drove her out of teaching.
2. 2

   Exhibiting hypermorphosis

   Exhibiting hypermorphosis; Having features that exaggerate adult morphology.

   • Vrba continues by stating that this '. . . can result in a major reorganization - or "shuffling" of body proportions such that some characters become larger and others smaller, some hyperadult and others more juvenilized' (1996, p. 1 ).
   • This suggests a heterochronic event, such as a hypermorphosis (i.e., hyperadult size and shape, McNamara, 1986).

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