metaphysically

adverb

meta·​phys·​i·​cal·​ly -zə̇k(ə)lē 

-zēk-, 

-li

1

: in the manner of metaphysics or of a metaphysician

the assimilation of men to machines, whatever may be thought of it metaphysically, is hardly likely to give us a just standard of values

—Bertrand Russell

2

: in the mode of a metaphysical reality or existence

the universal was more real metaphysically, than the particular

—John Dewey

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