supernaturalness


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su·per·nat·u·ral

(so͞o′pər-năch′ər-əl)
adj.
1. Of or relating to existence outside the natural world.
2. Attributed to a power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
3. Of or relating to a deity.
4. Of or relating to the immediate exercise of divine power; miraculous.
5. Of or relating to the miraculous.
n.
That which is supernatural.
su′per·nat′u·ral·ly adv.
su′per·nat′u·ral·ness n.
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Noun 1. supernaturalness - the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces
unnaturalness - the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles
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and once more the high tapering flames were beheld with what seemed redoubled supernaturalness in their pallor.
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In religious art, it is a window--as art historian Erwin Panofsky puts it--onto "the realm of the visionary, where the miraculous becomes a direct experience of the beholder, in that the supernatural events in a sense erupt into his own, apparently natural, visual space and so permit him really to `internalize' their supernaturalness."
THE RENAISSANCE MIND MIRRORED IN ART
Rather, he is using these reactions to highlight the supernaturalness of Jesus' resurrection."(13) All the episodes which Gundry singles out as using similar vocabulary to the ending are instances of miracle, and the words in every case clearly indicate a human being not only overwhelmed, but gladdened and changed by divine power.
Women transformed: the ending of Mark in the beginning of wisdom

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