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English
Etymology
From hyper- + sentence.
Noun
hypersentence (plural hypersentences)
- (linguistics) An implicit sentence containing an explicit sentence.
The sentence “Hand me that” may be said to entail the hypersentence “I'm telling you to hand me that.”
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