exceedingness

Trust in our own dreams of ambition, or in our country's expansive destinies, and faith in the providence of God, all have their source in that onrush of our sanguine impulses, and in that sense of the exceedingness of the possible over the real.

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

Trust in our own dreams of ambition, or in our country's expansive destinies, and faith in the providence of God, all have their source in that onrush of our sanguine impulses, and in that sense of the exceedingness of the possible over the real.

Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

The "objectivity" of it ought in that case to be called excessivity, rather, or exceedingness. "

The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902