supersensory

[ soo-per-sen-suh-ree ]

adjective

1. supersensible.
2. independent of the organs of sense.

Word History and Origins

Origin of supersensory¹

First recorded in 1880–85; super- + sensory

Example Sentences

The headset endows its users with a kind of supersensory power.

From Washington Times

“I only forgot to look in the wing mirror, and let’s face it, I can use a Supersensory Charm for that.”

From Literature

Whenever he stood at an exit point, the spot from which you jump, his overriding sensation was not terror but a supersensory alertness.

From New York Times

In the course of this work it will be my task to show in many connections how far-reaching are the implications of this direct and supersensory communion of mind with mind.

From Project Gutenberg

We gradually discovered that the accounts of apparitions at the moment of death—testifying to a supersensory communication between the dying man and the friend who sees him—led on without perceptible break to apparitions occurring after the death of the person seen, but while that death was yet unknown to the percipient, and thus apparently due, not to mere brooding memory, but to a continued action of that departed spirit.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• mental
• metaphysical
• psychological
• spiritual
• supernatural