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  • adjective Extremely social.

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hyper- +‎ social

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Examples

  • Social media isn't isolating us as we tap on our laptops, smartphones and tablets; rather, we're becoming "hypersocial" in our virtual, avatar-populated environment, suggests researcher and author S.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • As a result, people with Williams syndrome are "hypersocial," Meyer-Lindenberg told.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • Brooks is right that we humans are, as the biologists say, “hypersocial” animals.

    The rise of collectivist conservatives William Harryman 2009

  • Mr. Anderson didn't quite fit into the hypersocial environment at the scrappy startup.

    Putting Your Best Faces Forward 2009

  • Or is yoga but a bump in the road of our workaholic, distractable, hypersocial daily lives?

    Waylon Lewis: Cell Phones In Yoga Class? 2009

  • Nathan Englander , the novelist, short-story writer and soon-to-be playwright, is hypersocial, meeting friends for dinner on a nightly basis.

    NYT > Home Page By JULIE BOSMAN 2012

  • I may choose to work nights, weekends and holidays because I do best work when there is nobody else around (I am hypersocial and hyperactive, so when people are around I like to talk instead of work), but that is only my choice.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • They hypothesize that specific genes in the Williams syndrome region may be involved in the dysregulation of specific neuropeptide and hormonal systems, which could explain the observed hypersocial behavior.

    innovations-report 2010

  • I may choose to work nights, weekends and holidays because I do best work when there is nobody else around (I am hypersocial and hyperactive, so when people are around I like to talk instead of work), but that is only my choice.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • I may choose to work nights, weekends and holidays because I do best work when there is nobody else around (I am hypersocial and hyperactive, so when people are around I like to talk instead of work), but that is only my choice.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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