superphenomenal

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UK/suːpəɹˌfəˈnɒmɪnənəl/US/suːpəɹˌfəˈnɑməˌnɑnəl/

adjective

Superlatively phenomenal or quite remarkable.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectivesuperphenomenal (comparative more superphenomenal, superlative most superphenomenal)

comparative more superphenomenal · superlative most superphenomenal

  1. rareSuperlatively phenomenal or quite remarkable.

    It is evident that both of these theories regard mind as being a distinct entity of a superphenomenal if not supernatural sort.

    1913, Maurice Parmelee, The Science of Human Behavior, Biological and Psychological Foundations, Issues 1-7, Macmillan, page 322
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    “The anti-attā argument of Buddhism is mainly andconsistently directed against the notion of a soul, which was not only a persistent, unchanging, blissful, transmigrating, superphenomenal being, but was also a beingwherein the supreme Ātman or world soul was immanent, one with it in essence, and as a bodily or mental factorissuing its fiat."

    1916, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism, George G. Harrap, page 203

    The Intellect receives intuitions and apprehends realities of a superphenomenal order. We remember Meister Eckhart's statement: "There is something in the soul which is uncreated and uncreatable...this is the Intellect".

    1998 November 1, Harry Oldmeadow, “Metaphysics, Theology and Philosophy”, in www.themathesontrust.org

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*bʰh₂nyéti
  9. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáňňō
  10. Ancient Greekφαίνω (phaínō)
  11. Ancient Greekφαινόμενον (phainómenon)
  12. Late Latinphaenomenon
  13. Englishphenomenon
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  16. Ancient Greekφαινόμενον (phainómenon)
  17. Frenchphénomène
  18. Frenchphénoména
  19. Englishphenomenal
  20. Englishsuperphenomenal

From super- + phenomenal.

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