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
The orgone box style of acting — hermetic, self-engrossed — is back with a vengeance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
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
Often Bellamy was alone, curled up inside the orgone box that Kenneth Noland had left in the gallery.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2016
He also retrospectively added his theory of the "orgone".
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2013
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