supersensible

American  

[soo-per-sen-suh-buhl] / ˌsu pərˈsɛn sə bəl /

adjective

1. being above or beyond perception by the senses; beyond the reach of the senses.

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supersensible British  

/ ˌsuːpəˈsɛnsɪbəl /

adjective

1. imperceptible to or beyond reach of the senses

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Other Word Forms

• supersensibly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of supersensible

First recorded in 1790–1800; super- + sensible

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

supersensible

The best way to save America, concludes Canon Bell, is to raise up an elite, "servants of supersensible purpose," who will help the Common Man to perceive "what the good life is."

From Time Magazine Archive

Why should the proof that the ordinary power of cognition has to stop short of supersensible worlds, decide anything against the possibility of investigating those worlds?

From An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner

Cessante causa, cessat effectus, the supersensible world, the basis of religious authority, being gone, it logically results that religious authority itself is gone.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

This gives the main characteristic of Homeric Hades; it is the supersensible world, outside of Space and Time; or, rather with its own Space and Time, since it is still an image.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider

First of all, it is a negating of the sensible world and a going into the supersensible, a seeking of the spirit without the body.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider