English

hyperaware

From hyper- + aware.

A compound of hyper- + aware

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Proto-West Germanic *gawar ‘aware’

Old English ġewær

Middle English aware

English aware

Today it means

adj Extremely aware; much more alert to stimuli than normal.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hyperaware