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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In psychology: The concurrence of a number of ideas in consciousness: opposed by Ribot, as the normal state of consciousness, to the relative monoideism of attention.
  • noun Extreme suggestibility; openness to suggestion by ideas of all kinds: applied by Ochorowicz to the hypnotic state.

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