transcendent
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dənt adjective
1.
going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
2.
superior or supreme.
3.
4.
Philosophy.
a.
Scholasticism. above all possible modes of the infinite.
b.
Kantianism. transcending experience; not realizable in human experience. Compare transcendental ( defs 5a, c ).
c.
(in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | exceeding or surpassing in degree or excellence |
| 2. | a. (in the philosophy of Kant) beyond or before experience; a priori |
| b. (of a concept) falling outside a given set of categories | |
| c. beyond consciousness or direct apprehension | |
| 3. | theol (of God) having continuous existence outside the created world |
| 4. | free from the limitations inherent in matter |
| —n | |
| 5. | philosophy a transcendent thing |
| tran'scendence | |
| —n | |
| tran'scendency | |
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| tran'scendently | |
| —adv | |
| tran'scendentness | |
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Word Origin & History
transcendent
1590s, from L. transcendentem, prp. of transcendere (see transcend). Transcendentalism first recorded 1803, in reference to the philosophy of Kant; applied 1842 to the religio-philosophical views of Emerson and similar New England thinkers. Transcendental meditation is recorded from 1966.
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Example sentences
Networking idealists have always preferred to believe that online communities have a transcendent sociological value.
Argues that the transcendent nature and needs of humankind are not addressed by adult education theory or practice.
He treats the symphonies less as transcendent expressions of life in all its extremes than as sophisticated musical compositions.
We are now investigating the series of mutations that enabled this transcendent change.
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