anti-naturaladj.
Contrary or antagonistic to nature; the reverse or opposite of natural.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adjective] > abnormal or unnatural > beyond what is natural
supernatural?1537
preternatural1580
anti-naturala1603
contranatural1633
counternatural1666
denaturalized1800
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 228 Your Diuinity in the Supper is Anti-naturall..that is..contrary to nature.
1727 Pope et al. Peri Bathous 19 in Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. This happy and antinatural way of thinking.
1897 Daily News 24 Nov. 9/5 Such wealth is represented as not only ‘anti-social’, but ‘anti-natural’.
1947 C. S. Lewis Miracles xiv. 144 The anti-Natural or pessimistic religions..such as Buddhism or higher Hinduism, tell us that Nature is evil and illusory.
1957 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 10 230 Intellectually he [sc. modern man] often thinks of the supernatural as the preter- or anti-natural.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online November 2010).
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