nounA hypothetical force or natural power, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryBorrowed from German Od, arbitrarily coined by the German scientist and philosopher Carl Reichenbach (1788–1869).
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