Full record for overmind n.

Definition	a single, non-material consciousness composed of the consciousnesses of a large number of beings
OED requirements	antedating 1949
Earliest cite	James H. Schmitz, 'Agent of Vega'
Comment	Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1999 reprint of Robert J. Sawyer's 1998 "Factoring Humanity". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from James H. Schmitz's 1949 "Agent of Vega". Jeff Prucher submitted a 1953 cite from Arthur C. CLarke's "Childhood's End" Listed in Brave New Words with an earliest date of 1953
Last modified	24 June, 2009

Citations for overmind n.

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1979 J. Varley Titan (1987) 286	The satellite brain that held sway over the territory was a tool of the overmind, and had not as yet developed a personality of his own.
1987 T. Pratchett Equal Rites (1990) 27	The overmind of the forest made impromptu searching as hard as listening for a waterfall in a thunderstorm.
1991 J. Varley Steel Beach (1993) 345	We're guided, at first by the survivors of the Invasion who got us through the early years, and now by the overmind they created.