metaphysical
relating to abstract philosophical questions about existence, reality, and the nature of being
Word origin: From Greek meta, beyond, and physika, physics.
Metaphysical in a sentence
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The poet grappled with metaphysical questions about the soul's relationship to the body.
The seminar shifted from empirical psychology to metaphysical questions about whether the self persists through time.
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “metaphysical” well
Metaphysical concerns abstract questions of existence, reality, and being that lie beyond physical observation. In literary study it also names a school of seventeenth-century poets known for elaborate conceits.
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