Usually means: Excessive alertness to potential threats.
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  1. hypervigilance: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypervigilance: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hypervigilance: Wordnik
  4. hypervigilance: Wiktionary
  5. hypervigilance: Dictionary.com
  6. Hypervigilance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. hypervigilance: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  4. hypervigilance: Medical dictionary

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  1. Hypervigilance: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypervigilance)

▸ noun:  An enhanced state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect threats.

Similar:
hyperawareness, hyperresponsiveness, hyperalertness, hypervulnerability, qui vive, hypersensitization, hyperesponsiveness, hyperattention, hyperactivism, overalertness, more...

Opposite:
relaxation, calmness, complacency

Adjectives:
such, constant, anxious, extreme, chronic, sustained, persistent, necessary, purposeful, defensive

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Similar:
hyperawareness, hyperresponsiveness, hyperalertness, hypervulnerability, qui vive, hypersensitization, hyperesponsiveness, hyperattention, hyperactivism, overalertness, more...

Opposite:
relaxation, calmness, complacency

Adjectives:
such, constant, anxious, extreme, chronic, sustained, persistent, necessary, purposeful, defensive



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