orgone means in the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
orgone is pronounced /ˈɔːɡəʊn/.
Why “orgone” is a great word
ORGONE — [Noun] A hypothesized universal life force or sexual energy that can be accumulated and harnessed. The word is a blend of organism (a living being) and hormone (a regulatory substance), after German Orgon; coined by Wilhelm Reich in the 1930s. Unlike chi (a diffuse spiritual essence in Eastern cosmology) or libido (an interior psychological drive in Freudian thought), orgone is a pseudoscientific construct, conceived as a tangible, blue-tinged energy saturating the cosmos. It is the speculative charge Reich believed he could trap in his layered boxes, the shimmer he thought he saw over a healthy body, and the substance he claimed could heal illness—a materialist's melancholic attempt to quantify the very spark of life.
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- In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use.“In the present report I shall describe the methods of quantitative measurement of the orgone by means of the electroscope and the thermometer.”