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ˌsuperindiˈvidual, a. (and n.) [super- 4 a.] Of or pertaining to that which is above or greater than the individual. Also as n.
1916F. von Hügel German Soul 92 The moral relation between the individual and the super-individual unity. 1924W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 150 The crowd will then act and feel, and express itself together. In doing so it becomes an entity or super-individual. 1936J. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. iv. 49 Those who would reject psychology from linguistics because linguistic phenomena are superindividual. 1943Mind LII. 342 His [sc. Kant's] phrase Bewusstsein überhaupt, ‘consciousness in general’, though sometimes supposed to stand for a super-individual consciousness, might equally well..be taken to mean a character which all individual consciousnesses have in common. Hence ˌsuperindiˈvidualist, -individuaˈlistic = superindividual a.; also [super- 9 a], that favours a high degree of individualism.
1934Wyndham Lewis Let. 2 Nov. (1963) 223 Handicapped as we are under a super-individualist legislation—which allows the utmost licence in criticism of the State, in contradistinction to the Individual. 1943Mind LII. 342 The majority of Kant's followers have, I suppose, adopted what I may call the ‘super-individualist’ interpretation. 1958W. Stark Sociol. Knowledge i. 19 American society was also super-individualistic. |