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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.


supersensible British  
/ ˌsuːpəˈsɛnsərɪ, ˌsuːpəˈsɛnsɪbəl /

adjective

  1. imperceptible to or beyond reach of the senses

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of supersensible

First recorded in 1790–1800; super- + sensible

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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

On the other hand, authorities based upon the supposed existence of a supersensible world have lost their cause of being, for the reason that exact science plainly demonstrates the nonexistence of an immaterial world.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

Such, gentlemen, was human society when it recognized no supersensible world, no God above, no moral law.

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

It has nothing necessarily to do with a supersensible or a supernatural, if these words mean a ghostly, materialised, but super-finely-materialised nature, above and beyond the present.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Its meaning is plain enough, especially at first; but it grows more weird and more profound as it develops; at last it ascends quite into the beyond and points to the supersensible world.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Denton Jaques Snider

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