hyperexpansive

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ expansive

Adjective

hyperexpansive (not comparable)

1. (psychology) Overly expansive and outgoing, tending toward chaos and confusion.
   • 1990, Kirk J. Schneider, The paradoxical self:

     Fanaticism, however, chooses no favorites, as Hoffer (1951) concludes, and so we presently turn to hyperexpansive prejudice.

   • 2003, Mick Cooper, Existential Therapies, →ISBN, page 86:

     In cases of on-going, chronic trauma, on the other hand, Schneider suggests that the child may become unable to counteract, and thereby conform to their hyperconstrictive or hyperexpansive pressures.

   • 2004, Florence W. Kaslow, Robert F. Massey, Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, →ISBN, page 317:

     Whether an individual in HIV-related psychotherapy manifests a hyperexpansive or hyperconstricted existential position vis-à-vis death anxiety, the therapeutic goal is to bring about movement to a more centered position in which the individual is able to accept the seriousness of the illness while also continuing to go about living as fully as possible within the constraints of the disease.

2. Having an extreme tendency to expand.
   • 2008, Sidnie White Crawford, Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times, →ISBN, page 53:

     Further, these fragments in 4Q158 are not merely harmonistic, but also hyperexpansive.

   • 2016, Jeremi Suri, Benjamin Valentino, Sustainable Security: Rethinking American National Security Strategy, →ISBN:

     For all the public focus on terrorism after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, resource constraints emerged as one of the most important strategic challenges for a hyperexpansive American security posture.

   • 2016, Mitchell Dean, Kaspar Villadsen, State Phobia and Civil Society: The Political Legacy of Michel Foucault, →ISBN:

     The sensation of a hyperexpansive, globalized, and omnipotent form of power, the new Leviathan of Empire, is counterbalanced by the inherent possibilities, or even revolutionary potentials, within the monster itself.

3. (mathematics) Pertaining to a class of operators closely related to the theory of negative definite functions on abelian semigroups.
   • 2015, Yousef Estaremi, “Unbounded weighted conditional type operators on L^p spaces”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     As a consequence hyperexpansive multiplication operators are investigated..