transmundane

[trans-muhn-deyn, tranz-, trans-muhn-deyn, tranz-]

adjective

1. reaching beyond or existing outside the physical or visible world.

   She believed in otherworldly contacts and transmundane spirits.

transmundane

/ trænzˈmʌndeɪn /

adjective

1. beyond this world or worldly considerations

Word History and Origins

Origin of transmundane¹

First recorded in 1770–80; trans- + mundane

Example Sentences

At these places at least, I say, it would seem as though transmundane energies, God, if you will, produced immediate effects within the natural world to which the rest of our experience belongs.

From Project Gutenberg

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