superphenomenal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From super- + phenomenal.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /suːpəɹˈˌfəˈnɒmɪnənəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /suːpəɹˈˌfəˈnɑməˌnɑnəl/
Adjective
[edit]superphenomenal (comparative more superphenomenal, superlative most superphenomenal)
- (very rare) Superlatively phenomenal or quite remarkable.
- 1913, Maurice Parmelee, The Science of Human Behavior, Biological and Psychological Foundations, Issues 1-7[1], Macmillan, page 322:
- It is evident that both of these theories regard mind as being a distinct entity of a superphenomenal if not supernatural sort.
- 1916, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism[2], George G. Harrap, page 203:
- “The anti-attā argument of Buddhism is mainly andconsistently directed against the notion of a soul, which was not only a persistent, unchanging, blissful, transmigrating, superphenomenal being, but was also a beingwherein the supreme Ātman or world soul was immanent, one with it in essence, and as a bodily or mental factorissuing its fiat."
- 1998 November 1, Harry Oldmeadow, “Metaphysics, Theology and Philosophy”, in www.themathesontrust.org[3]:
- The Intellect receives intuitions and apprehends realities of a superphenomenal order. We remember Meister Eckhart's statement: "There is something in the soul which is uncreated and uncreatable...this is the Intellect".