Contextualizebeta

hypervigilance

noun

Etymology

From hyper- + vigilance.

  1. derived from vigilantia
  2. borrowed from vigilance
  3. prefixed as hypervigilance — “hyper + vigilance”

Definitions

  1. An enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of…

    An enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect threats.

    • Studies that support the hypervigilance theory have largely used electrical stimulation or focal pressure to elicit the judgement of pain threshold.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hypervigilance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA