Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supersensual.
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- adjective Beyond the range of what is
perceptible by thesenses ; not belonging to theexperienceable physical world.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The inclusion of the supersensory mode is what makes the experience mystical.
Mysticism Gellman, Jerome 2005
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The contrast was powerful, coming so close to the supersensory voyage I had just completed.
Sign of the Unicorn Zelazny, Roger 1975
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It is on power of supersensory, or extra-sensory perception that what is known as telepathy and clairvoyance are based.
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It is more likely that the remarkable supersensory power given enabled reading through the wood.
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There is abundant evidence that a supersensory perception is also developed, entirely beyond the most highly developed condition of the ordinary senses, such as being able to tell clearly what some other person is doing at a great distance.
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Mrs. Charmond, however, with the almost supersensory means to knowledge which women have on such occasions, quite understood what Marty had intended to convey, and the picture thus exhibited to her of lives drifting away, involving the wreck of poor Marty's hopes, prompted her to more generous resolves than all Melbury's remonstrances had been able to stimulate.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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She is "not a medium", we are told, but rather "a supersensory explorer who has been trained in the cosmic language of symbols for more than 20 years."
British Blogs 2009
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"Colours Beyond Colours" opens with a Jamaican-sounding speaker ostensibly describing the supersensory effects of LSD, and then segueing into a cod-'60s-didactic announcement about the electromagnetic spectrum.
PopMatters 2009
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Mrs. Charmond, however, with the almost supersensory means to knowledge which women have on such occasions, quite understood what Marty had intended to convey, and the picture thus exhibited to her of lives drifting away, involving the wreck of poor Marty’s hopes, prompted her to more generous resolves than all Melbury’s remonstrances had been able to stimulate.
The Woodlanders 2006
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In some of these traditions, the experiences are allegedly of a supersensory reality, such as God or Brahman (or, in a few Buddhist traditions, Nirvana, as a reality (See Takeuchi, 1983, pp. 8-9).
Mysticism Gellman, Jerome 2005
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