superindividual

adj

superindividual

adj

Etymology From super- + individual.

1

Above or beyond the individual.

  • The collective consciousness is, thus, superindividual. It resides, of course, in the individuals composing the group — there is nowhere else for it to exist — but it resides in all of them...1912, Francis Macdonald Cornford, From religion to philosophy: a study in the origins of western speculation:

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