supersensible

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ sensible.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

supersensible (comparative more supersensible, superlative most supersensible)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Synonyms

• supersensory
• supersensual
• supersensuous

See also

• extrasensory