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Meaning of hypervaluation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. An excessive estimation of the worth of something; extreme valuation.
    countable
  2. The state of something being valued extremely highly.
    uncountable

Examples

“Internet stocks whose hypervaluations have given them the currency to make rapid acquisitions to build market share while running deeper deficits have been the exception.”
“The hypervaluations of many new economy firms that made no business profits whatsoever opened up the possibility that financial asset appreciation might delink altogether from business profit making.”
“At the same time, at a deeper level, the cartoons made fun of the hypervaluation of maleness on which machismo in Ecuador depended.”
“For example, the hypervaluation of Jackie O.'s pearls is causally anomalous in that it cannot be explained in terms of more typical determinants of value, such as the materials or their aesthetic value.”
“This sort of hypervaluation of sickness and suffering would indeed have undermined the rule of the monastery. It is difficult to imagine how a monastery could function in an orderly fashion with members bringing conditions such as this upon themselves.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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