supersensualismn.
/ˌsuːpəˈsɛnsjʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsuːpəˈsɛnsjᵿlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsuːpəˈsɛnʃʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsuːpəˈsɛnʃ(ᵿ)lɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsjuːpəˈsɛnsjʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsjuːpəˈsɛnsjᵿlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsjuːpəˈsɛnʃʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌsjuːpəˈsɛnʃ(ᵿ)lɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsupərˈsɛn(t)ʃ(əw)əˌlɪzəm/ 1. Philosophy and Theology. The quality of being above or beyond what is perceptible by the senses; supersensual thought or belief.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun]
ghostlinesslOE
spiritala1393
spiritualtya1398
spiritualtyc1400
spiritualityc1485
inhabitation1615
spiritual-mindedness1647
spiritual1649
sprituality1694
spiritualism1744
otherworldliness1817
disattachment1846
supersensualism1847
otherworldism1872
other-worldness1872
upliftedness1893
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > spirituality or being incorporeal > spiritual matters, ideas, or doctrine
ghostlinessa1400
ghostliheadc1450
spiritualityc1450
spirituals1582
supersensualism1847
1847 Westm. & Foreign Q. Rev. Apr. 13 Long and obscure words of Greek and Latin origin, first translated and naturalised in Germany,..carry with them an air of learning and profundity... Objectivity and subjectivity, supersensualism, absolutism, realism, idealism, [etc.].
1849 R. Montgomery & J. Hennen tr. K. I. Nitzsch Syst. Christian Doctr. Introd. 37 Super-sensualism [Ger. Entsinnlichung] is only introduced by dialectic reflection.
a1861 W. Cunningham Hist. Theol. (1864) II. xxiii. 191 The neology of Germany combining easily with a sort of mystical supersensualism was fitted to interest the feelings.
1961 I. L. Horowitz Radicalism & Revolt against Reason v. 159 Super-sensualism may be just as compatible with revolutionary aims as anti-sensualism.
1996 S. M. Shell Embodiment of Reason 420 Kant's discussion of the Pietist and Moravian would-be solutions to the problem of rebirth sheds further light on the distinction drawn here between a(n irrational) supernaturalism that melts or shatters the heart and a (rational) supersensualism that lays out and improves it.
2. An extreme or unusual degree of sensualism.
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1850 S. Judd Richard Edney & Governor's Family xi. 164 The flattery of what I should call super-sensualism inflames her vanity.
1907 J. W. S. Gouley Dining & its Amenities ii. 19 Ardent lovers of good cheer are too often unjustly decried for sybaritism, for super-sensualism, by the thoughtless.
1965 H. J. Stenning tr. L. von Sacher-Masoch Venus in Furs 161 The blows..have done me good, the rosy clouds of supersensualism have vanished and no one can again make me believe that the sacred apes of Benares or Plato's cock are the image of God.
2004 N. Wood in S. I. Dobrin & K. B. Kidd Wild Things xii.199 The narratives stress submission to irresistible sublime power, the appeal to what Deleuze has called ‘supersensualism’, and mark all of these tales with a masochistic signature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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