sensuous
adjective
gratifying the senses.
supersensuous
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a word derived from
sensuous.
Example Sentences
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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
Of course, in asserting the importance of these "supersensuous" values the religionist does not mean that they are beyond the reach of human appraisal or unrelated by their nature to the rest of our understanding.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
It is an article of the common creed that every attempt which the world has made to bring them together has resulted in denial, or at the best in doubt, regarding all supersensuous facts.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
But this view of the weakness of the intelligence when applied to supersensuous facts, is held along with an undisturbed conviction of the validity of our knowledge of ordinary objects.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Sir Henry Jones
He invented this style of speaking, and made it express the supersensuous, the incommunicable.
From Emerson and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman
