out-of-body experience n (Psychology) a vivid feeling of being detached from one’s body, usually involving observing it and its environment from nearby. Abbreviation: OBE or OOBE Compare near-death experience Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014out-of-body experience(OBE) An occasion when an individual separates from and views from above his or her physical body. Compare neardeath experience.Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited