Definitions
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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Examples
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In the state of _passive polyideism_ (many thoughts) it may be either immediate or may take place after an interval of greater or lesser length.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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In the state of _active polyideism_ the conditions are complex and subject to further subdivisions, for:
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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He replaced the Olympus of the populace by a spiritual Olympus; the material mythology by an idealistic mythology; polytheism by polyideism, if it may be so expressed -- the gods by types.
Initiation into Philosophy ��mile Faguet 1881
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