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supersensual

American  
[soo-per-sen-shoo-uhl] / ˌsu pərˈsɛn ʃu əl /

adjective

  1. beyond the range of the senses.

  2. spiritual.

  3. extremely sensual.


Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of supersensual

First recorded in 1675–85; super- + sensual


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It alone extends the narrow horizon of their thoughts, supplies the images of their dreams, allures them to the supersensual and the ideal.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

By it we can best link up the actual and the ideal, and demonstrate the single character of human greatness; whether it be exhibited, in the physical or the supersensual sphere.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill

Even in this case we speak figuratively, for how could we speak otherwise of what is supersensual?

From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Master Nothing truly but thine own willing, hearing, and seeing do keep thee back from it, and do hinder thee from coming to this supersensual state.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Jakob Böhme

Another instance we would relate from our own personal acquaintance with the one who was himself the subject of a similar supercorporeal and supersensual action of the spirit.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

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