orgone
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of organism hormone, after German Orgon.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]orgone (countable and uncountable, plural orgones)
- In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use. [from 20th c.]
- 1944, Wilhelm Reich, “The Discovery of the Orgone, part 2”, in Theodore P Wolfe, transl., International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research, volume III, number 1:
- In the present report I shall describe the methods of quantitative measurement of the orgone by means of the electroscope and the thermometer.
- 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press:
- So, boys, when those hot licks play over your balls and prick and dart up your ass like an invisible blue blow torch of orgones, in the words of T. J. Watson, Think.
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of orgasmo ormone, modeled on English orgone.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]orgone m (plural orgoni)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- orgone in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- orgone in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- orgóne in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- orgóne in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]orgone
- Alternative form of organe
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