out-of-body experience

English

Alternative forms

• out-of-the-body experience

Noun

out-of-body experience (plural out-of-body experiences)

1. (parapsychology) An experience in which one feels outside of one’s body.

Usage notes

• Out-of-body experiences are sometimes differentiated from astral projections by understanding the former experiences to be involuntary and uncontrolled while the latter are considered to be deliberately initiated and controllable.

Translations

experience in which one feels outside one's body

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靈魂出竅／灵魂出窍 (zh) (línghúnchūqiào), 出體經驗／出体经验 (chūtǐ jīngyàn)

• Finnish: ruumiista irtautumisen kokemus, kehostapoistumiskokemus
• German: außerkörperliche Erfahrung f, außerkörperliches Erlebnis n
• Hungarian: testen kívüli élmény
• Japanese: 幽体離脱 (ja) (ゆうたいりだつ, yūtairidatsu), 体外離脱 (ja) (たいがいりだつ, taigairidatsu)

See also

• astral projection