metaphysical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   highly abstract and overly theoretical

   Metaphysical reasoning.

2. 2
   adj

   without material form or substance

   Metaphysical forces.

3. 3
   adj

   pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics

   Metaphysical philosophy.

4. 4
   adj

   Immaterial, supersensual, beyond the physical.

   The roots of authority, on the contrary, always had a metaphysical character.

From Middle English metaphisicalle, methafisical, from Medieval Latin metaphysicālis. By surface analysis, meta- + physical.

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