Definition of Nonsensuous

1. Adjective. Not sensuous. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonsensuous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonsensuous

nonsensed
nonsenses
nonsensical
nonsensicalities
nonsensicality
nonsensically
nonsensicalness
nonsensification
nonsensifications
nonsensify
nonsensing
nonsensitive
nonsensory
nonsensual
nonsensuality
nonsensuous (current term)
nonsentence
nonsentences
nonsentient
nonsentimental
nonseparability
nonseparable
nonseptal
nonseptate
nonseptate mycelium
nonseptic
nonsepticemic
nonsequel
nonsequels
nonsequence

Literary usage of Nonsensuous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy by Benjamin Rand (1908)
"... if we ask how it could know an object, not discursively by means of categories, but intuitively, and yet in a nonsensuous intuition, — a process of ..."

2. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"4 IV Whitehead considers perception, in this connection, as wider than sense-perception ; and he emphasizes the importance of nonsensuous perception ..."

3. Outlooks from the New Standpoint by Ernest Belfort Bax (1891)
"... is simply a system of categorised sensations, and that to gratuitously assume nonsensuous, uncategorised things-in-themselves as existing somewhere or ..."

4. Herbart's ABC of Sense-perception, and Minor Pedagogical Works by Johann Friedrich Herbart (1896)
"On the contrary, the pure concept of the content of a surface is an absolutely nonsensuous concept, ..."

5. The Doctrine of the Transcendent Use of the Principle of Causality in Kant by Frank Hugh Foster (1882)
"287): "The nonsensuous cause of these representations is wholly unknown to us, and we cannot therefore have intuition of it as ..."

6. The Idea of God: An Inquiry Concerning the Practical Content of the by James Palmer (1904)
"In content the limitation may be sensuous or nonsensuous, pathetic or antipathetic; they may either help or hinder the conscious individual. ..."

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