APA Dictionary of Psychology

timeless moment

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. the infinitely small dimension of the present instant as conceptualized by traditional linear time. See psychological moment; specious present.
  2. an experience in which one’s normal awareness of time dissolves and one feels a sense of holistic involvement with another person or thing or with the universe as a whole. Such peak experiences are of particular interest in humanistic psychology. See being cognition.
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