"Hypertrophy" (hy-PUR-truh-fee) – from the Greek for "beyond nourishment" – is excessive growth or accumulation of any kind.
Example (as used by Karl Taro Greenfeld in a New York Times review of Dog Man by Martha Sherrill): "Westerners writing about Japan tend to fall into two camps – those enraptured with it’s modernity, the idea that frenetic, hypertrophied Tokyo somehow represents the future, or others… who find in Japan’s remote regions an anachronistic respite that harks back to our rustic past."
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