sensuous
adjective
gratifying the senses.
supersensuous
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a word derived from
sensuous.
Example Sentences
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There is not only a spiritual sense in man which recognizes the supersensuous, but there is an indwelling witness to the eternal principle of rightfulness.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
On the one hand, matter, inert, lifeless: on the other hand, spirit, living, supersensuous: between the two, and linking the two, man, a spirit in a body.
From Nature Mysticism by John Edward Mercer
She is perfectly oblivious to space and time if she can get someone to discuss Flammarion’s supersensuous world of force, Mr. George’s theory of land-holding, or Spencer’s law of progress.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
It may be an hour, it may be two hours, when, without the aid of sound or sight, we become aware by an indescribable, supersensuous perception that living creatures are approaching.
From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies
This will is in and of itself a constituent portion of the supersensuous world.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
