hyperepidemic
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Noun
edithyperepidemic (plural hyperepidemics)
- A very widespread epidemic.
Adjective
edithyperepidemic (not comparable)
- Very highly epidemic.
- 1991, Todd L. Savitt, James Harvey Young, Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South, page 42:
- According to Erwin Ackerknecht, the disease was hyperepidemic in New England from 1870 to 1890.