Usually means: Science of imaginary solutions, philosophy.
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  1. pataphysics: Merriam-Webster
  2. pataphysics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pataphysics: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pataphysics: Collins English Dictionary
  5. 'pataphysics, pataphysics: Wiktionary
  6. pataphysics: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. pataphysics: Dictionary.com
  8. 'Pataphysics, Pataphysics, 'pataphysics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. pataphysics: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  10. pataphysics: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. pataphysics: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pataphysics: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  An absurdist philosophy or pseudoscience studying things "beyond" metaphysics.

Similar:
paraphysics, pseudometaphysics, paraphysicist, metaphysics, metaphysicianism, antimetaphysics, metaphysicks, absurdism, philosophy, speculative philosophy, more...

Opposite:
metaphysics, normalcy, logic, realism, reason

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paraphysics, pseudometaphysics, paraphysicist, metaphysics, metaphysicianism, antimetaphysics, metaphysicks, absurdism, philosophy, speculative philosophy, more...

Opposite:
metaphysics, normalcy, logic, realism, reason



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