subnatural
English
Alternative forms
- sub-natural
Etymology
sub- + natural
Adjective
subnatural (comparative more subnatural, superlative most subnatural)
- (physics) Describing spectroscopic lines that are narrower than those produced naturally
- Below or beneath nature.
- 2013, Daniel Buxhoeveden, Gayle Woloschak, Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church (page 51)
- As the well-known “problem of natural evil” indicates, this transparency is only relative. In a fallen, subnatural world, there is a certain opaqueness to God's purposes […]
- 2013, Daniel Buxhoeveden, Gayle Woloschak, Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church (page 51)