单词 | superconscious |
释义 | superconsciousn.adj. Chiefly Philosophy and Psychology. A. n. With the. The state, condition, or fact of being above or transcending human or normal consciousness. Also: the part of the mind that experiences this. Cf. superconsciousness n., subconscious n., supraconscious n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > states of consciousness > superconsciousness > [noun] superconscious1822 superconsciousness1860 supraconscious1900 1822 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. July (1990) IV. 4912 The Soul may have..alternate immersions in or relapses into, the Super-conscious & Universal. 1887 E. P. Powell Our Heredity from God iii. vii. 359 We reach the super-conscious by following outward the road of consciousness. 1953 R. F. C. Hull tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. & Alchemy in Coll. Wks. XII. ii. 268 There are people who can never understand the unconscious as anything but a sub-conscious, and who therefore feel impelled to put a superconscious alongside or possibly above it. 1988 B. L. Weiss Many Lives, Many Masters 74 Somehow there was a ‘higher’ part of her mind, a sort of superconscious. 2006 Nexus Feb. 27/3 Human intelligence can only be fully understood when we include spirit (‘energy’), or what..psychologists call the ‘superconscious.’ B. adj. Transcending human or normal consciousness.Cf. subconscious adj., supraconscious adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > states of consciousness > superconsciousness > [adjective] superconscious1861 supraconscious1869 1861 M. P. W. Bolton Exam. Princ. Scoto-Oxonian Philos. i. i. 16 The theory..cannot be verified and cannot be communicated. So that, even if the pretended super-conscious state could exist, its results would be to us as nothing. 1866 F. W. H. Myers in E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living II. 285 I believe that super-conscious operations also are going on within us; operations, that is to say, which transcend the limitations of ordinary faculties of cognition. 1904 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 1st v. iv. 166 In that immense unweeting Mind is shown One far above forethinking; purposive, Yet superconscious. 1940 A. Huxley Let. 12 Jan. (1969) 449 It looks as though there were a kind of spiral development, from unconscious animal, through conscious human up to what for lack of better words may be called super-conscious spiritual. 2004 S. S. Subramuniyaswami Merging with Śiva (ed. 2) xxix. 329 A receptacle for the superconscious areas of mind to permeate the physical body from the psyche. Derivatives ˌsuperˈconsciously adv. ΚΠ 1893 L. E. Whipple Philos. Mental Healing xv. 220 The activities of mind are so subtle that these pictures frequently are changed super-consciously, without either party concerned being aware of the circumstance. 1922 J. Cournos Babel ix. 355 He felt strangely, keenly awake, his mind intensely clear, super-consciously clear. 1999 Scotsman (Nexis) 31 Mar. 20 It was clear that Heron's awareness of colour and shapes round him each day subconsciously (or ‘superconsciously’, as he himself put it) fed into an art of great individuality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1822 |
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