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adjective
1.
going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
2.
superior or supreme.
3.
Theology. (of the Deity) transcending the universe, time, etc. Compare immanent (def. 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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Transcendent
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Origin:
1575–85; < Latin trānscendent- (stem of trānscendēns), present participle of trānscendere. See transcend, -ent
1575–85; < Latin trānscendent- (stem of trānscendēns), present participle of trānscendere. See transcend, -ent
Related forms
tran·scend·ent·ly, adverb
tran·scend·ent·ness, noun
su·per·tran·scend·ent, adjective
su·per·tran·scend·ent·ly, adverb
su·per·tran·scend·ent·ness, noun
EXPANDun·tran·scend·ent, adjective
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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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