the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In pathology, excessive sensibility; exalted sensation. Also hyperesthesia, hyperæsthesis, hyperesthesis.
Word Usage
"There is another symptom, hyperaesthesia of the eye, which Binet and Féré omit; this is extremely rare among men, and with women results from local affection."