单词 | subsensible |
释义 | subsensibleadj. Existing below the level of the senses. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > (naturally) imperceptible to senses unperceptiblea1398 unperceivable?a1475 imperceptible1536 undiscernable1586 imperceivablea1617 undiscernible1624 occult1650 unperceptable1678 imperceptive1722 supersensible1795 subsensible1858 supersensory1883 1858 J. Brown in S. Brown Lect. Atomic Theory Introd. 3 Their [sc. atoms'] forces, movements, actions, and reactions, though subsensible, are conceivably within the power of mathematical induction and geometrical calculus. 1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xv. 387 That subsensible world into which all natural phenomena strike their roots. 1904 Sewanee Rev. 12 43 In his philosophy he [sc. Lucretius] maintains the existence of atoms and of a subsensible world. 1926 J. C. Smuts Holism & Evol. vi. 131 During this process of subsensible growth or incubation the character may be fairly described as potential in the ancestors of the new species. 2010 A. Richardson Neural Sublime ii. 34 Where the Kantian sublime..claims to produce an intuition of the supersensible, the Romantic neural sublime instead..offers an intuition of what is ordinarily subsensible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1858 |
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