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hyperintensity

noun

hyperintensity is a noun meaning “An area of high intensity (for example, as seen in magnetic resonance imaging)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-I-N-T-E-N-S-I-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperintensity is hyperintensities.

What does hyperintensity mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An area of high intensity (for example, as seen in magnetic resonance imaging).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hyperintensity

  • hyperintensities plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is hyperintensity?

Hyperintensity appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does hyperintensity come from?

From hyper- + intensity.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).