"hypermoron" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: hypermorons [plural]
Etymology: From hyper- + moron. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|hyper|moron}} hyper- + moron Head templates: {{en-noun}} hypermoron (plural hypermorons)
  1. (obsolete, psychology) A person exhibiting a specific form of arrested development. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Psychology

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The cause is morinoia, habit-mindedness; the type of person is the moron, in three grades, the morose, the amiable and the hypermoron, or near-normal."
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          "ref": "2006, Christopher Gray, NYT, The Ungainly Duckling That Alighted Along the Park",
          "text": "Mrs. Stoner devised six classes of people. In ascending order of value they were idiots; destructionists; morons; hypermorons (in which class she put most people); geniuses (who were creative); and progressionists (who could get things done in business and related fields)."
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