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oversoul

oversoul

1 9.9
A single spirit people believe connects and guides all living things
  • noun
  • /ˈoʊvərˌsoʊl/
  • Archaic
translation icon : sobresalma
  • This "oversoul" does appear in Zarathustra.

Examples

  • The oversoul, furthermore, is divine and an ultimate cause and creative source of the natural world.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Oversoul will abandon their posts once you use the right magic words to convince them that your creepy ambush hugging is really perfectly grand.

    Blog text (19)
  • Is she an oversoul too?

  • Other days brought heightened intensity to the central project atop the oversoul.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Emerson's idealism was pantheistic, identifying everything in nature with spirit, with the oversoul, with God.

    Academic text (1998)
  • She thought of the two tables in various ways: as the undertow and the waves, or the viscera and the mind, or the undersoul and the oversoul—all determined by their vertical relationship.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that connecting with the oversoul could lead to spiritual enlightenment.

  • Many philosophies suggest that recognizing the oversoul can help individuals feel at one with nature and each other.

  • The concept of the oversoul emphasizes a shared spirit that links all living beings together.

Synonyms

undersoul
vsoversoul
  • Literature
9.9

A single inner spirit that connects all living things

is more about guiding individual souls as well as connecting them
overmind
vsoversoul
  • Literature
9.9

A higher level of mind that connects many people

focuses on a guiding spiritual presence rather than an intellectual level
supramental
vsoversoul
  • Specialized
9.9

A higher state of mind beyond normal human thought

concerns a unifying spirit that connects and guides individual souls

How Transcendent

overmind
  • Literature
9.9
oversoul
  • Archaic
1 9.9

Surface Forms

oversoul singular
oversouls plural

Morphology

oversoul = soul (semi-transparent) = over + soul

The components 'over' + 'soul' transparently suggest a 'higher' or 'universal' soul, but the term is a specialized philosophical concept (Emersonian usage) that learners may not fully infer from components alone.

Etymology

Oversoul breaks into over meaning 'above' and soul meaning 'spirit'. So an oversoul is a 'higher' or shared spirit that is thought to be above individual souls and to connect all living beings.