nethermind

English

Etymology

From nether- +‎ mind.

Noun

nethermind (plural netherminds)

1. The lower or subconscious mind.
   • 1969, Thomas M. Disch, Camp concentration:

     The truth perhaps - the true truth - is not so much that the mask is hollow as that I don't care to look behind it at the nystagmic flicker of image image image that the nethermind is broadcasting to the faulty receptor of the overmind.

   • 2001, Martin Amis, Experience: A Memoir:

     This is how he does it as a writer: he runs everything past his innocence, his nethermind, his first soul. He runs everything past his soul.

   • 2004, Erik Davis, TechGnosis:

     While the mesmerists were uncovering the ethereum through their patients' netherminds, measurable electromagnetism was also beginning to radically reconfigure the official scientific picture of the cosmos.

Antonyms

• overmind

Anagrams

• hinderment