antiphysical

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Contrary to nature

   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.
   • Quaternionics was in its vectorial aspects antiphysical and unnatural, and did not harmonize with common scalar mathematics.
2. 2

   Nonphysical

   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.
   • It will be of some help to us in understanding de Rougemon't thesis if we have a clear sense of this romantic tradition with its curiously antiphysical understanding of sexual love and eros.
3. 3

   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.
   • The rules of decency and modesty arose out of antiphysical repugnances to physical functions that seemed to humiliate human dignity.

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