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super- +‎ sensible

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supersensible (comparative more supersensible, superlative most supersensible)

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

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