Home › Words › H › hypervaluationhypervaluationhypervaluation means an excessive estimation of the worth of something; extreme valuation.EtymologyFrom hypervalue (“to value extremely highly or closely”) + -ation, or equivalently, hyper- (“over, above, beyond, excessive”) + valuation.nounAn excessive estimation of the worth of something; extreme valuation.e.g.“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.” — 2020, Richard E. Ottoo, Valuation of Corporate Growth Opportunities, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, pages 18–19:The state of something being valued extremely highly.e.g.“At the same time, at a deeper level, the cartoons made fun of the hypervaluation of maleness on which machismo in Ecuador depended.” — 2002, Anthropology Beyond Culture, Berg Publishers, →ISBN, page 18:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).