Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Superior to matter; higher than the physical; immaterial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural.

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  • adjective Supernatural, beyond the physical realm, immaterial, unearthly, preternatural, metaphysical

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Examples

  • The view I develop, on the basis of recent psychological research, is that projective disgust has its origin in a discomfort with one's own body and its messier animal aspects, including sexuality, and that, in a defense mechanism, disgust is then projected outward onto vulnerable groups who are characterized as hyperphysical and hypersexual.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • The view I develop, on the basis of recent psychological research, is that projective disgust has its origin in a discomfort with one's own body and its messier animal aspects, including sexuality, and that, in a defense mechanism, disgust is then projected outward onto vulnerable groups who are characterized as hyperphysical and hypersexual.

    The Nation 2010

  • Michael Tomasky chimes in on Mike Huckabee using the phrase "ick factor" to describe gay sex, and notes that the person Huckabee claims originated the phrase not only did not do so, but actually was identifying people who exhibit "projective disgust:" projective disgust has its origin in a discomfort with one's own body and its messier animal aspects, including sexuality, and that, in a defense mechanism, disgust is then projected outward onto vulnerable groups who are characterized as hyperphysical and hypersexual.

    Streak's Blog 2010

  • The soul, mind, or whatever we call the subject or source of these immaterial states or activities, must be therefore some kind of hyperphysical agent or power.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • You quote instances of the hyperphysical and hysterical.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • Two years later, when he gave up baseball for the life of an evangelist, his verbal facility, italicized by his hyperphysical platform style, put him on his way to becoming the most successful American preacher of his era, perhaps the most successful one ever.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Two years later, when he gave up baseball for the life of an evangelist, his verbal facility, italicized by his hyperphysical platform style, put him on his way to becoming the most successful American preacher of his era, perhaps the most successful one ever.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • In the most successful of the methods used, a purely mechanical means, he found it possible to rotate living creatures instantaneously into and out of the hyperphysical existence without harm.

    "Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2009

  • With our existence transferred to the hyperphysical plane, we'll be whisked along the minute ray of the super-microscope, which is now trained on the place we are to visit.

    "Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2009

  • We shall not only enter the hyperphysical plane, but shall project ourselves into the delectable world of the microcosmos and there emerge as entities adaptable to the greatly different existence.

    "Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2009

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