orgone
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of orgone
C20: from org ( asm ) + ( horm ) one
Example Sentences
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The Food and Drug Administration questioned his claims about the orgone accumulator and believed that the device was a cover for more illicit activities.
From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2021
In the 1950s, Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich began constructing guns in an attempt to harness the power of orgone, a pseudoscientific life force that purportedly powers the universe.
From Slate • Aug. 27, 2019
“My epitaph,” Mann joked to me, “will be that I was the first person to put a string quartet in an orgone box.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2018
In 1957 Reich was imprisoned, having been accused of peddling his orgone boxes as a cure for cancer.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2013
All that was needed was an orgone box.”
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2013
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