" But I would have liked to see you doing an analysis of spontaneous religious sentiment or, more exactly, of religious feeling which is...the simple and direct fact of the feeling of the eternal (which can very well not be eternal, but simply without perceptible limits, and like oceanic [comme océanique] )."
Romain Rolland, Letter to Sigmund Freud, 1927.
Immersion
Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (imperfective): to dip, sink
→ Latin mergō (v.): 1. to dip (in), immerse; plunge into water; drown
2. to overwhelm
3. to cover, bury
4. (of water) to engulf, flood, swallow up, overwhelm
5. (figurative) to hide, conceal, suppress
→ Latin immergō (v.): to immerse, plunge into
→ Latin immersio (n.)
→ immerse (v.): 1. to place within a fluid (generally
a liquid, but also a gas)
2. to involve or engage deeply
Overwhelm
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (v.): to curve
→ Proto-Germanic *hwalbą (n.): vault, arch
→ Old English hwealf (adj): arched, concave, vaulted
hwealf (n.): an arched or vaulted ceiling
→ Middle English whelmen (v.): to turn over, capsize;
to invert, turn upside down
→ overwhelm (v.): 1. to engulf, surge over and submerge
2. to overpower, crush
3. to overpower emotionally
Unfathomable
Proto-Indo-European *peth (v.): 1. to spread out
2. to fly
→ Old English fæthm (n.): ‘something which embraces’ ; ‘the outstretched arms’
→ Dutch vadem
→ Middle English fadme (n.): unit of length of about six feet
→ fathom (n.): a unit of length equal to six feet, chiefly
used in reference to the depth of water
→ fathom (v.): to measure the depth of water
(figurative) to deeply understand
→ unfathomable (adj.): 1. impossible to measure
(especially of depth)
2. (figurative) Impossible to
grasp the extent of, or to fully
know or understand
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