Antiphysical
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Contrary to nature; unnatural;
"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."
- 2 Contrary to nature; unnatural;; Homosexual obsolete
"She atchieved a transitory victory over the antiphysical appetites of the late king of Sweden, and for a time inspired him with a desire of natural pleasures;"
- 3 Nonphysical; abstract, mental, intellectual, or spiritual.
"This superannuated scholasticism has been generally called metaphysical from the order of Aristotle's works, but is more properly antiphysical."
- 4 Repulsed by the physical.
"The important works of Peter Brown, Carolyn Walker Bynum, and others have demonstrated that Christian asceticism is not necessarily antiphysical and misogynistic."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From anti- + physical.
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