Home › Words › H › hypercollinearityhypercollinearityhypercollinearity means excessive collinearity.EtymologyFrom hyper- + collinearity.nounExcessive collinearitye.g.“To avoid the problem of hypercollinearity, the use of sulfonylurea and/or metformin was treated as a single independent variable.” — 2015 November 12, “Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Kidney Cancer Risk: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis of the National Health Insurance”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).