superindividual

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ individual.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

superindividual (comparative more superindividual, superlative most superindividual)

1. Above or beyond the individual.
   • 1912, Francis Macdonald Cornford, From religion to philosophy: a study in the origins of western speculation:

     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...