单词 | out-of-body |
释义 | out-of-bodyadj. Characterized by the sensation that one's consciousness is located outside one's body. Chiefly in out-of-body experience. ΚΠ 1968 S. Smith (title) Out-of-body experiences for the millions. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 15 May 10/2 Monroe contends that the out-of-body experience is the projection of ‘the second body’, or ‘the soul’, as he puts it, into the same state of being or ‘energy system’ that humans enter after death. 1983 P. Fussell Class vi. 142 Quasi-scientific nonsense—creatures from outer space, out-of-body ‘travel’, and the triumphs of psychics. 1986 G. Chesbro Veil (1987) vii. 46 A small percentage of men and women who've survived clinical death..report an out-of-body experience and the glimpsing of a bright portal of light. 1999 J. Lloyd & E. Rees Come Together ii. 52 I don't really connect with this, because I'm having an out-of-body kind of day. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1968 |
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