supersensationaladj.
/ˌsuːpəs(ɛ)nˈseɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌsuːpəs(ɛ)nˈseɪʃən(ə)l/, /ˌsjuːpəs(ɛ)nˈseɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /ˌsjuːpəs(ɛ)nˈseɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /ˌsupərsɛnˈseɪʃ(ə)nəl/, /ˌsupərsənˈseɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Now rare.
= supersensible adj.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > not perceptible by the senses or beyond the senses
unsensiblec1380
insensible1509
imperceptible1536
ungropable1558
untouchable1567
unfeelable1609
unsensive1616
intactible1623
intangible1640
supersensual1647
intactile1660
supersensitive1701
touchless1767
supersensible1795
untangible1816
insensile1822
ungraspable1822
suprasensitive1825
suprasensible1831
suprasensuous1838
subsensual1840
unsensuous1850
supersensational1853
insensuousa1861
1853 W. Pulsford tr. J. Müller Christian Doctr. Sin II. iii. iii. 85 They were only to be of service immanently but not transcendentally, that is to say, in no way adapted, by being applied to objects of a supersensational, intelligible world, to extend our cognition beyond the empirical world.
1888 W. James Let. 22 Aug. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. of W. J. (1935) II. 86 By the Kantian view..I mean the doctrine of a supersensational construction. For Kant there is a non-spatial sensational chaos before there is space in the mind.
1943 H. Read Educ. through Art ii. 28 As for the mental activity called intuition, by which we do not mean any super-sensational faculty of the mind, but the apprehension of abstract quantities and relations..it is the basis of a fourth type of art.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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