Home › Words › H › hypervaluehypervaluehypervalue means A value more important or beyond an ordinary value.EtymologyFrom hyper- (“over, above, beyond, excessive”) + value.nounA value more important or beyond an ordinary value.e.g.“Who gets how much of these is no longer organized according to the hypervalue that the physician's presence, in itself, can be healing.” — 2009, Arthur W. Frank, The Renewal of Generosity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 86:An extreme amount of value.e.g.“But it is not only this functional explanation that allows us to understand the hypervalue attached to archeology.” — 2009, Maria N. Todorova, Bones of Contention, Central European University Press, →ISBN, page 111:verbTo value extremely highly or closely.e.g.“To the missionaries other ways of reasoning were perceived as contending against their long established and hypervalued truth.” — 1991, Identity, Rationality, and the Post-colonial Subject, Columbia University, Institute of African Studies:To assign a higher value than is necessary or appropriate; to overvalue.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.overevaluate 66% match — To evaluate and rank too highly; overvalue. vs hypervalue →overvaluable 66% match — Excessively valuable. vs hypervalue →overvaluing 65% match — An overvaluation. vs hypervalue →overhighly 65% match — Too highly; too greatly. vs hypervalue →valorize 64% match — To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable. vs hypervalue →overprize 64% match — To prize excessively; to overvalue. vs hypervalue →overvaluation 63% match — An instance of overvaluing. vs hypervalue →undervalue 61% match — To underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for. vs hypervalue →