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tran·scen·den·tal·ism

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1.	transcendental character, thought, or language.

2.	Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson.

[Origin: 1795–1805; < G Transcendentalismus. See transcendental, -ism

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n.

A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
The quality or state of being transcendental.

tran'scen·den'tal·ist n.

transcendentalist
noun
advocate of transcendentalism