interdimensional

[in-ter-di-men-shuh-nl, dahy-]

adjective

1. existing or traveling between dimensions of space or time.

   The best thing about an interdimensional space and time machine is that you never know quite when one is going to pop up.

2. (in science fiction, fantasy, etc.) coming from an alternate dimension or a parallel universe.

   There's a wide range of character options, including an unholy paladin, an interdimensional warlord, a reptilian soothsayer, and an anarchist obsessed with transhumanism.

   I prefer the terms extraterrestrials or interdimensional beings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interdimensional¹

First recorded in 1950–55; inter- ( def. ) + dimension ( def. ) + -al ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

“Without spoiling where it goes, it’s a story about people realizing they’re not alone — that the terror they are afraid they’re imagining is real, and that if they work together and believe in each other and love each other, that extraordinary things are possible. Even in the face of tremendous evil, whether it’s the locals or something interdimensional like It.”

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That door simply happens to be an interdimensional portal.

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Accustomed to the challenges of realizing his ambitious ideas with humble means, the Mexican director was introduced to a different industry when he made the 2018 sci-fi thriller “Parallel,” about a mirror that works as an interdimensional portal, in Vancouver.

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They believed they were interdimensional, which means that through AI, we're opening up new, non-space-time places of information and knowledge, and that this kind of interaction with this other intelligence was going to be happening.

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Bertrand Bonello’s “The Beast” is an audacious interdimensional romance, techno-thriller and Los Angeles noir rolled up in one.

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