Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Exceeding or going beyond the purely physical.
  • adjective Not explained by known physical laws; preternatural or supernatural.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Superorganic; independent of or not explicable by physical laws of the organism; psychical; spiritual.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.

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  • adjective Above or beyond physics; not explainable by physical laws.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ physical

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Examples

  • Accordingly, everything combined to suggest to Crookes that here, if anywhere, he was at the boundary between the physical and the superphysical worlds.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • It is only by its interactions with gravity that levity brings about events in the physical world-events, however, which are themselves partly of a physical, partly of a superphysical kind.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • For from the physical, as much as from the superphysical aspect the nerve-system represents the 'dry' part, and the metabolic system the 'moist' part of man's being.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • The ego, the superphysical conscious and reasoning entity should rule its material body, its temporary vehicle.

    The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition A. W. Duncan

  • Normally a definite spiritual type co-ordinates the dynamic functions present in the superphysical sphere of nature in the manner required to give the plant-organism its appropriate form.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • And withal, as he lounged in the fire-light, dreamily turning his love-letter, he had a sort of superphysical beauty, reflected of the glow that many waters cannot quench.

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

  • A mere continuation of this path could lead to nothing but a loss of all connexion between the plant's superphysical and physical component parts.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • In the midst of his many interests and activities, Crookes was filled from his youth with a longing to find by empirical means the bridge leading from the world of physical effects to that of superphysical causes.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • My guru was reluctant to discuss the superphysical realms.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • My guru was reluctant to discuss the superphysical realms.

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

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