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extramundane

 
Dictionary: ex·tra·mun·dane   (ĕk'strə-mŭn-dān', -mŭn'dān') pronunciation
adj.
Occurring or existing outside of the physical world or universe.


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(ek-struh-mun-DAYN)

adjective
Beyond the physical world.

Etymology
From Late Latin extramundanus (beyond the world), from Latin extra- + mundanus, from mundus (world).

Usage
"It is both mundane and extramundane: found here on earth, though far from the dailiness of ordinary experience - in this world and hence of it and yet, by the very extremity of the journey required to apprehend it, not of this world." — Tom Hansen; Clinton's North; The Explicator (Washington); Summer 2000.

"Where rears his terminating pillar high Its extramundane head? and says, to gods, In characters illustrious as the sun." — Edward Young (1683-1765); Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality.


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adjective

    Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world: extrasensory, metaphysical, miraculous, preternatural, superhuman, supernatural, superphysical, supersensible, transcendental, unearthly. See supernatural.

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[fr. late L. extramundan-us]
situated in or relating to a region beyond the material world; fig. out of this world
 
 
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