OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does out-of-body experience mean? 

• OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE (noun)
  The noun OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body

  Familiarity information: OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The dissociative experience of observing yourself from an external perspective as though your mind or soul had left and was observing your body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("out-of-body experience" is a kind of...):

experience (an event as apprehended)