hyperauthentic

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ authentic

Adjective

hyperauthentic (comparative more hyperauthentic, superlative most hyperauthentic)

1. Very highly authentic.
   • 2004, John Karaagac, The fate of the father: the Bush policy paradox, page 23:

     To overcome that lingering legacy, the younger Bush was all but compelled to become almost hyperauthentic in his Texan identity, and it was a role he took to with much gusto.

   • 2008 June 8, Hari Kunzru, “Outside Ethnicity”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Isn’t this hyperauthentic narrative of Vietnamese victimhood just the sort of thing calculated to tug at the heartstrings — and wallets — of liberal American readers?