supersensible

English

Etymology

super- + sensible

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.
    • 1900, George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Chapter 1, p. 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.
    Heaven is a supersensible realm.
  2. Extremely sensible; excessively sensitive or aware of something.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16,
      [] the patriotic zeal officially evinced by Claggart had somewhat irritated him as appearing rather supersensible and strained.

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