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tran⋅scend⋅ence

  [tran-sen-duhns]
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–noun
the quality or state of being transcendent.
Also, tran⋅scend⋅en⋅cy.

Origin:
1595–1605; < ML trānscendentia. See transcendent, -ence
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tran·scen·dent   (trān-sěn'dənt)   
adj.  

  1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.

  2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor" (National Review).

  3. Philosophy

    1. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.

    2. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.

  4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.

tran·scen'dence, tran·scen'den·cy n., tran·scen'dent·ly adv.
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