• Nethermind

    Origin

    From - + mind.

    Full definition of nethermind

    Noun

    nethermind

    (plural netherminds)
    1. The lower or subconscious mind.
      • 1969, Thomas M. Disch, Camp concentration:The truth perhaps - the true truth - is not so much that the mask is hollow as that I don't care to look behind it at the nystagmic flicker of image image image that the nethermind is broadcasting to the faulty receptor of the overmind.
      • 1983, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Jean Chaline, Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique:For example the insular glirids show nethermind the origin, the time and the place of the isolation a tendancy to hypsodonty, to motorisation of the premolar, and to the formation of longitudinal lingual and labial crest on the lower ...
      • 2001, Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir:This is how he does it as a writer: he runs everything past his innocence, his nethermind, his first soul. He runs everything past his soul.
      • 2004, Erik Davis, TechGnosis:While the mesmerists were uncovering the ethereum through their patients' netherminds, measurable electromagnetism was also beginning to radically reconfigure the official scientific picture of the cosmos.

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