hylopathy means the ability of a spirit to penetrate and affect matter. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “hylopathy” is a great word
HYLOPATHY — [Noun] The capacity of a spirit or immaterial principle to penetrate and affect physical matter. From the combining form hylo- (from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, "wood, matter")) + -pathy (from Ancient Greek -πάθεια (-pátheia), from πάσχειν (páskhein, "to experience, to suffer")). Unlike hylozoism, which posits life inherent in all matter, or interactionism, a general theory of mind-body relations, hylopathy names the specific agency of the unseen upon the tangible. It is the séance table tilting under spectral hands, the poltergeist hurling a vase, or the precise depression left in a pillow by a head that is no longer there—a testament to the persistent human conviction that some griefs and longings are too urgent for the body alone.
Etymology
From hylo- + -pathy, after the model of Ancient Greek ὑλοπάθεια (hulopátheia), from ὕλη (húlē, “wood, matter”) + πᾰ́σχειν (pắskhein, “to experience, to feel, to suffer”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming nouns”).
noun
- The ability of a spirit to penetrate and affect matter.“And this affection of a Spirit we will make bold to call, for more compendiousness, by one Greek term ὑλοπάθεια which, that there may be no suspicion of any fraud or affected foolery in words, we will as plainly as we can define thus, A power in a Spirit of offering so near to a corporeal emanation from the Center of life, that it will so perfectly fill the receptivity of Matter into which it has ”