Hypervaluation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An excessive estimation of the worth of something; extreme valuation. countable

    "Internet stocks whose hypervaluations have given them the currency to make rapid acquisitions to build market share while running deeper deficits have been the exception."

  2. 2
    The state of something being valued extremely highly. uncountable

    "At the same time, at a deeper level, the cartoons made fun of the hypervaluation of maleness on which machismo in Ecuador depended."

Synonyms

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overvaluation

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"Internet stocks whose hypervaluations have given them the currency to make rapid acquisitions to build market share while running deeper deficits have been the exception."

Etymology

From hypervalue (“to value extremely highly or closely”) + -ation, or equivalently, hyper- (“over, above, beyond, excessive”) + valuation.

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