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SUPERSENSIBLE

Definition: SUPERSENSIBLE

SUPERSENSIBLE

Adjective

1. Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SUPERSENSIBLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Etymology: Supersensible \Su`per*sen"si*ble\, adjective. [Prefix super- sensible: compare to the French expression supersensible.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: SUPERSENSIBLE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Concealment

Behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil; hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery.

Immateriality

Adjective: immaterial, immateriate; incorporeal, incorporal; incorporate, unfleshly; supersensible; asomatous, unextended; unembodied, disembodied; extramundane, unearthly; pneumatoscopic; spiritual. (psychical).

World

Heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: SUPERSENSIBLE

English words defined with "SUPERSENSIBLE": Supersensual, Supersensuous. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SUPERSENSIBLE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Change in the Path to Supersensible Knowledge (reference)

  • Supersensible Knowledge (reference)

  • Supersensible Man (reference)

  • Supersensible Physiology & Balance in Teaching (reference)

  • The New Experience of the Supersensible (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: SUPERSENSIBLE

Expression using "SUPERSENSIBLE": into the realms supersensible. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SUPERSENSIBLE

Language Translations for "SUPERSENSIBLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tepër i ndjeshëm (hypersensitive, supersensitive). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

свръхестествен (eerie, hyperphysical, metaphysical, miraculous, occult, preternatural, spiritual, supernatural, transcendental, uncanny, unearthly, unnatural, weird), неуловим за сетивата. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

érzék fölötti. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upersensiblesay

   

Portuguese

  

suprasensível. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

suprasensibil (oversensitive). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сверхчувственный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

natčulan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

extremadamente sensible (supersensitive). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

трансцендентальний (transcendent, transcendental), надчутливий (supersensitive). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

siêu cảm giác (pretersensual, supersensual, supersensuous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SUPERSENSIBLE"

Words rhyming with "SUPERSENSIBLE" (pronounced 'Su`per*sen"si*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SUPERSENSIBLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-i-l-n-p-r-s-s-s-u"

-2 letters: burlinesses.

-3 letters: bluenesses, enuresises, preblesses, purenesses, ripenesses, sleepiness, superbness.

-4 letters: burliness, nebulises, pelerines, perilunes, pilseners, pursiness, sensibler, sensibles, spineless, spleenier, suberises, subseries, superlies, surliness, suspenser.

-5 letters: beelines, berlines, blessers, blueness, bluesier, business, eeriness, enureses, enuresis, erepsins, eserines, leisures, nebulise, nereises, peerless, pelerine, pelisses, penuries, perilune, pilsener, pilsners, prebless, pureness, purlines, pusslies, reinless, reissues, repulses.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-i-l-n-p-r-s-s-s-u"
 

+3 letters: disreputableness.

 

+5 letters: disreputablenesses, unprofitablenesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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