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orgone

/ˈɔːɡəʊn/noun

orgone is a noun meaning “In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-R-G-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of orgone is orgones.

What does orgone mean?

noun

  1. 1

    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.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce orgone?

  • /ˈɔːɡəʊn/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of orgone

  • orgones plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is orgone?

Orgone appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does orgone come from?

Blend of organism + hormone, after German Orgon.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).