out-of-body experience

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 (ゆうたいりだつ, yūtairidatsu), 体外離脱 (たいがいりだつ, taigairidatsu)

See also

• astral projection