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ˈsupermind
1. [super- 6 c.] A mind of exceptional capacity or ability; a person possessing such a mind.
1918Daily News (Chicago) 5 Jan. 10/6 (heading) Four super-minds ruling in Loop. 1962‘S. Ransome’ Without Trace v. 50 Loot that wasn't dropping soon enough because..that high-geared supermind of Lynch's kept hanging fire. 1975J. Taylor Superminds (1976) ix. 161 The view of a group of defence workers..who advised their government to liquidate all superminds as being a menace to security.
2. [super- 5 a or 6 b.] An extended or superior mind that is a composite of many individual minds.
1941L. MacNeice Poetry of W. B. Yeats vi. 126 This mind, for Yeats, is not so much the mind of God as the super-mind of humanity. 1965Listener 1 July 26/1. This civilization exists in a corporate form, the individual thinking units of which have long ago been synthesized into one super-mind. |