supersensible
English
Etymology
Adjective
supersensible (comparative more supersensible, superlative most supersensible)
- 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, [1]
- 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.
- 1900, George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Chapter 1, p. 6, [1]
- Extremely sensible; excessively sensitive or aware of something.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [2]
- […] the patriotic zeal officially evinced by Claggart had somewhat irritated him as appearing rather supersensible and strained.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 16, [2]