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What (who) is hyperaesthesia - definition

EXAGGERATED SENSATIONS OF TACTILE STIMULI
Hyperaesthesia; Hyperesthetic; Hyperstesia

hyperaesthesia         
[?h??p?ri:s'?i:z??, -?s'?i:-]
(US hyperesthesia)
¦ noun Medicine excessive physical sensitivity.
Derivatives
hyperaesthetic adjective
Origin
C19: from hyper- + Gk aisthesis 'sensation'.
Hyperaesthesia         
·noun A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it.
Hyperesthesia         
·noun ·same·as Hyperaesthesia.

Wikipedia

Hyperesthesia

Hyperesthesia is a condition that involves an abnormal increase in sensitivity to stimuli of the sense. Stimuli of the senses can include sound that one hears, foods that one tastes, textures that one feels, and so forth. Increased touch sensitivity is referred to as "tactile hyperesthesia", and increased sound sensitivity is called "auditory hyperesthesia". In the context of pain hyperaesthesia can refer to an increase in sensitivity where there is both allodynia and hyperalgesia.

In psychology, Jeanne Siaud-Facchin uses the term by defining it as an "exacerbation des sens": 37  that characterizes gifted individuals: for them, the sensory information reaches the brain much faster than the average, and the information is processed in a significantly shorter time.