Antiphysical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antiphysical is an adjective meaning Contrary to nature; unnatural;.
Meaning
Contrary to nature; unnatural;.
More Meanings
- Nonphysical; abstract, mental, intellectual, or spiritual.
- Repulsed by the physical.
Example Sentences
Quaternionics was in its vectorial aspects antiphysical and unnatural, and did not harmonize with common scalar mathematics.
This superannuated scholasticism has been generally called metaphysical from the order of Aristotle's works, but is more properly antiphysical.
According to all the laws of hydrostatics, the water which flows into a brewery should leave it through its drains. Its exit in barrels on drays is antiphysical.
It will be of some help to us in understanding de Rougemon't thesis if we have a clear sense of this romantic tradition with its curiously antiphysical understanding of sexual love and eros.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antinatural, contranatural, counternatural, unbiological, unnaturalistic, infranatural.
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