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Word of the Day - Psychozoic

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psychozoic

adjective
Geology
rare
Geology (now rare) designating or relating to the period of geological time characterized by the presence of human intelligence.

Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, critic, and philosopher.

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Psychozoic is perhaps rare because since Coleridge used the term, we have come to realize that human intelligence is even more rare.

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