preternatureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From preter- +‎ nature, after preternatural.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pɹiːtəˈneɪtʃə/

名詞

preternature (uncountable)

1. (まれに) The realm beyond the natural; the preternatural. [from 19th c.]
   • 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’:

     In my own heart there dwells no faith in preter-nature.

   • 1997, Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe, page 263:

     We can speak here too, then, of pressure and, indeed, encroachment by the category of preternature on territory previously occupied by the miraculous.

関連する語

• preternatural