antiphysical

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.

Contrary to nature; unnatural;

She atchieved a transitory victory over the antiphysical appetites of the late king of Sweden, and for a time inspired him with a desire of natural pleasures;

A violent animus against antiphysical passions makes him exaggerate these dangers, for it is clear that normal vice is no less free from sordid demoralisation and crimes of violence than its abnormal twin-brother.

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.

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.