Definition of "hyperconscious" []

• Extremely or acutely aware. (adjective)

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• "The effect is one in which we are conscious, if not "hyperconscious," of two media at work."
• "He was hyperconscious of what he called “the tremendous anti-Latin feeling” of California and Los Angeles."
• "When tragedy does occur, it is more often than not given a black-comedic inflection — as in works by Wallace, Antrim, Eggers, and their ilk — not because the authors can't do powerful conflict and emotion, necessarily, but because the hyperconscious self-reflexiveness of their style is hard to turn off."