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Audio Help / trænˈsɛn dənt / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ tran-sen -duh nt ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective 1. going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
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.
–noun Mathematics . 5. a transcendental function.
[Origin:
1575–85; < L
trānscendent- (s. of
trānscendéns ), prp. of
trānscendere. See transcend , -ent ]
—Related forms tran·scend·ent·ly, adverb
tran·scend·ent·ness, noun
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adj.
Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor" (National Review).
Philosophy Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
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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transcendent adjective 1. exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence 2. beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought"
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Transcendent
Tran*scend"ent\, a. [L. transcendens, -entis, p. pr. of transcendere to transcend: cf. F. transcendant, G. transcendent.]
1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
Clothed with transcendent brightness. --Milton.
2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
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