supraconsciousnessn.
/ˌs(j)uːprəˈkɒnʃəsnəs/, U.S. /ˌsuprəˈkɑnʃəsnəs/ The state or fact of transcending normal human consciousness. Cf. superconsciousness n.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [noun] > Bergsonism and its adherents > elements of
supraconsciousness1879
creative evolution1908
1879 Unitarian Rev. Oct. 387 Hartmann..does not deny intelligence to God in denying him consciousness, and..this intelligence is not blind, but ‘absolutely clairvoyant and infallible’. We may call it, if we choose, a ‘supra-consciousness’.
1911 A. Mitchell tr. H. Bergson Creative Evol. 275 It is consciousness, or rather supra-consciousness, that is at the origin of life.
2001 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 18 Feb. c12 Such supra-consciousness would be more annoying in a lesser writer's hands, but DeLillo achieves a creepily hypnotic effect with his stark, probing prose.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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