hyperreligiosity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hyper- + religiosity.
Noun
[edit]hyperreligiosity (uncountable)
- An extreme religious mania sometimes associated with mental conditions.
- 2008 May 13, David Brooks, “The Neural Buddhists”, in New York Times[1]:
- If they suffer from temporal lobe epilepsy, they will show signs of hyperreligiosity, an overexcitement of the brain tissue that leads sufferers to believe they are conversing with God.