English edit

Etymology edit

hyper- +‎ violence

Noun edit

hyperviolence (uncountable)

  1. Extreme violence.
    • 2009 May 24, Jeffrey Goldberg, “No Common Ground”, in New York Times[1]:
      To Morris, this rejection and all that followed — the hyperviolence of the second Palestinian uprising, the rise of Hamas — confirm that there is nothing Israel could do to make Arab Muslims agree to its existence as a Jewish state.