superˈsensuous, a.
[super- 4 a.]
= supersensual 1. Also absol. with the.
| 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1837) I. 209 Whatever is conscious self-knowledge is reason; and in this sense it may be safely defined the organ of the supersensuous. 1825 ― Aids Refl. (1848) I. 276 Spiritual truths and objects super-sensuous. 1853 Merivale Rom. Emp. xxix. (1865) III. 372 Their rejection of supersensuous theories went only to the denial of a resurrection of the body. 1872 Liddon Elem. Relig. iii. 91 Man is regarded as composed of a body, and of a single supersensuous nature, which is sometimes called life or soul, and sometimes spirit. 1876 Athenæum 16 Dec. 806/2 A remarkable case of supersensuous perception. |
Hence superˈsensuousness.
| 1865 tr. Strauss' Life Jesus II. ii. xcvii. 414 On these words..the whole of the sensuous supersensuousness [cf. supersensual 1, note] of that Gospel is distinctly stamped. |