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subsensible

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English

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Etymology

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From sub- +‎ sensible.

Adjective

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subsensible (comparative more subsensible, superlative most subsensible)

  1. Deeper than the reach of the senses.
    • 1873, John Tyndall, “Lecture II”, in Six Lectures on Light Delivered in America in 1872-1873, page 42:
      definite images of things which that subsensible world contains

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for subsensible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)