transcosmic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From trans- +‎ cosmic.

Adjective[edit]

transcosmic (not comparable)

  1. (science fiction, religion) Across or beyond the cosmos.
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
      That shriek, and Noyes’s still-unbroken snore, are the last sounds I ever heard in that morbidity-choked farmhouse beneath the black-wooded crest of haunted mountain—that focus of transcosmic horror amidst the lonely green hills and curse-muttering brooks of a spectral rustic land.