superphysical
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
superphysical (comparative more superphysical, superlative most superphysical)
- Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.
- 1895, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision:
- We trace physics and chemistry to a certain point, but as we pursue the investigation we find something superphysical and superchemical, or else a physics and a chemistry far higher than any we yet know.
References edit
“superphysical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.