supersensible

English

From super- +‎ sensible.

supersensible (comparative more supersensible, superlative most supersensible)

Beyond the range of what is perceptible by the senses; not belonging to the experienceable physical world.
Heaven is a supersensible realm.
- 1900, George Santayana, chapter 1, in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion‎^[1], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 6:
  The imagination, therefore, must furnish to religion and to metaphysics those large ideas tinctured with passion, those supersensible forms shrouded in awe, in which alone a mind of great sweep and vitality can find its congenial objects.
Extremely sensible; excessively sensitive or aware of something.
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd‎^[2], London: Constable & Co.:
  […] the patriotic zeal officially evinced by Claggart had somewhat irritated him as appearing rather supersensible and strained.