Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Over-activity; excessive energy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an unusually high level of activity; -- used especially with respect to children who move around frequently and do not sit still very long, most noticeably in school. It is sometimes associated with
attention deficit disorder .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Quality of being hyperactive;
excessive andpathological movement andrestlessness
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement
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Examples
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NED needs his Ritalin — his hyperactivity is out of control.
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The extremes of these changes in levels of activity are termed hyperactivity and hypoactivity.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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In Pictures: How Glenn Beck Makes His Money Video: Brand It Like Beck His hyperactivity is a blessing and a curse for his 34 full-time staffers, too, who chase after Beck and his volcanic mental eruptions, helping him turn those words into new productions and sources of profit.
Glenn Beck Inc 2010
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His hyperactivity is a blessing and a curse for his 34 full-time staffers, too, who chase after Beck and his volcanic mental eruptions, helping him turn those words into new productions and sources of profit.
Glenn Beck Inc 2010
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I dont know if there is any correlation but my so called hyperactivity coincided with the period when those mercury filling were installed.
Nutrition and health in agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009
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Although Ritalin is best known as the controversial medication for children diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder (ADD, alias hyperactivity), adults are now taking the yellow pills to improve their concentration.
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I realize now that the hyperactivity was her response to the overwhleming change that had been foisted on her.
pupdate 2007
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Let antiquated curriculums be revamped, so they are meaningful, and so that what we now call hyperactivity or attention deficit or learning disability become things of the past, because schools exist for the people in them, rather than the other way around.
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Over its relatively short lifetime, what is now popularly known as hyperactivity has had more than forty names, including learning disability, impulse disorder, hyperkinesis, and minimal brain dysfunction.
You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! Raymond N. Guarendi 1985
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Over its relatively short lifetime, what is now popularly known as hyperactivity has had more than forty names, including learning disability, impulse disorder, hyperkinesis, and minimal brain dysfunction.
You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! Raymond N. Guarendi 1985
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