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outformation en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of out + information, as though the latter began with English in.

Meanings

  1. (countable, neologism, uncountable) Something that is sent out or broadcast from the source that formed it.
    • Phobos' lack of the classic red color of Mars further suggests it was not originally a Martian outformation as a natural satellite, and therefore was probably a captured chunk from another extraterrestrial formation. 2008, M. Don Schorn, Elder Gods of Antiquity: First Journal of the Ancient Ones, page 108:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The expression or reflection of an internal state.
    • The brain has two sides, one for information and one for ‘outformation’, which is not possible to grasp in an analytic way. 2000, The Wire, volumes 197-202, page 27:
    • It is the best possible place in which to do the growing you need to do to realize the outformation of your God Self. 1998, Michael A. Maday, New Thought for a New Millennium: Twelve Powers for the 21st Century:
    • Your body, your weight, your health are all the outformation of consciousness. Your relationship or the absence of a happy relationship are the consequences of sequences of thought built up over your life. 1994, Eric Butterworth, The Universe Is Calling: Opening to the Divine Through Prayer, page 37:

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