preversionn.
/priːˈvəːʃn/, U.S. /priˈvərʒ(ə)n/, /priˈvərʃ(ə)n/ rare.
F. W. H. Myers's term for: the prefiguring of a stage of evolution more advanced than that which a species, esp. the human species, has currently reached.
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a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. 21 I regard the passage back from waking into sleep as including elements both of reversion and of what I may term preversion... Those faculties which form man's link with the spiritual world,—telepathy and telæsthesia—are apt (as dreams obscurely show us) to make in sleep their first rudimentary appearance.
1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. p. xx Preversion, a tendency to characteristics assumed to lie at a further point of the evolutionary progress of a species than has yet been reached; opposed to reversion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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