| 单词 | peak experience |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeak experience peak experience n. Psychology a momentary awareness of joy or fulfilment, akin to ecstasy and of a higher and different quality from ordinary experience. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] > momentary peak experience1959 1959 E. G. Schachtel Metamorphosis viii. 177 His [sc. A. H. Maslow's] ‘peak experience’ is characterized by what I call allocentric perception. 1962 A. H. Maslow Toward Psychol. of Being iii. vi. 69 An attempt to generalize in a single description some of these basic cognitive happenings... These and other moments of highest happiness and fulfilment I shall call the peak-experiences. 1975 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 22 Feb. 20/2 I underwent a religious-like peak experience in which the presence of divinity became almost palpable. 1992 W. Kaminer I'm Dysfunctional, you're Dysfunctional (1993) iii. 58 ‘Peakers’, people who enjoyed more than the usual share of peak experience, were subjective without being selfist. < as lemmas |
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