Hypercivilized

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Very highly civilized.

    "A fascination with the natural world — which seems at once fragile and enduring, forbiddingly strange and intimately known — is an obvious response to, and escape from, our hypercivilized, technology-saturated, globalized habitations."

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"A fascination with the natural world — which seems at once fragile and enduring, forbiddingly strange and intimately known — is an obvious response to, and escape from, our hypercivilized, technology-saturated, globalized habitations."

Etymology

From hyper- + civilized.

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