Definition of Superactivity

1. Noun. A state of heightened or excessive activity. ¹

2. Noun. A scout group activity involving adventure away from home. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Superactivity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Superactivity

superabundances
superabundant
superabundantly
superaccept
superaccepts
superaccurate
superachiever
superachievers
superachieving
superacid
superacids
superacidulated
superactinide
superactinides
superactivities
superactivity
superacute
superadd
superadded
superadding
superaddition
superadditional
superadditions
superadditive
superadditivities
superadditivity
superadds
superadiabatic
superadobe
superadvanced

Literary usage of Superactivity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Integrative action of the nervous system by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Or the after-increase might result from the inhibition being followed by a rebound to superactivity. This latter seems to be the case. ..."

2. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"It is the depression of inhibition and not the mere freedom from an exciting stimulus that induces a later superactivity. And the reflex inhibition of the ..."

3. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Or the after-increase might result from the inhibition being followed by a rebound to superactivity. This latter seems to be the case. ..."

4. Growth During School Age: Its Application to Education by Paul Godin (1920)
"Among the troubles due to the presence of the tumor and its development, a notable nutritive superactivity necessarily figured. It may be that this was the ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1874)
"... supposed irritation oi the nerves and the nervous centres, is it to be explained by a morbid superactivity, more or less perverted, of the nutrition ? ..."

6. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"... of nutrition improve, indicate that under the influence of a superactivity of nutrition defective organisms might furnish a normal epigenesis. ..."

7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"... the pulse beats with force, the patient complains of flushes of heat; in short, all the signs of superactivity of the circulation ensue. ..."

8. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"... features which suggest a common bond : — (1) Carbohydrate metabolism is influenced, not only by the pancreas, but also by the thyroid in superactivity, ..."

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