supersensible
adjEtymology From super- + sensible.
1
Beyond the range of what is perceptible by the senses; not belonging to the experienceable physical world.
- Heaven is a supersensible realm.
- 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.1900, George Santayana, chapter 1, in Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 6:
2
Extremely sensible; excessively sensitive or aware of something.
- […] the patriotic zeal officially evinced by Claggart had somewhat irritated him as appearing rather supersensible and strained.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
- Synonyms
- supersensory, supersensual, supersensuous
- Derived terms
- supersensibly
- Related terms
- extrasensory