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transcendent

[ tran-sen-duhnt ]

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.
    1. Scholasticism. above all possible modes of the infinite.
    2. Kantianism. transcending experience; not realizable in human experience. Compare transcendental ( defs 5a, 5c ).
    3. (in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.


noun

, Mathematics.

transcendent

/ trænˈsɛndənt /

adjective

  1. exceeding or surpassing in degree or excellence
    1. (in the philosophy of Kant) beyond or before experience; a priori
    2. (of a concept) falling outside a given set of categories
    3. beyond consciousness or direct apprehension
  2. theol (of God) having continuous existence outside the created world
  3. free from the limitations inherent in matter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. philosophy a transcendent thing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • tranˈscendentness, noun
  • tranˈscendently, adverb
  • tranˈscendence, noun
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Other Words From

  • 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
  • untran·scendent adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of transcendent1

1575–85; < Latin trānscendent- (stem of trānscendēns ), present participle of trānscendere. See transcend, -ent
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Example Sentences

Rutgers University climate scientist Robert Kopp tells Axios that the pandemic and the Texas disaster have shown us that the competence of public institutions is a predictor of the "severity" of transcendent disasters.

From Axios

We share with those other beings not the mysterious, transcendent essence of vitalism, but the highly improbable fact of being alive.

Meditating in a room with no distractions whatsoever is a transcendent experience, and I urge you to try it out if you can.

In their Fiesta Bowl matchup last December, it was clear that Fields also possessed transcendent ability.

It is art because it takes what seems invisible or disposable and renders it visible and transcendent.

From Vox

A Europe which is no longer open to the transcendent dimension of life is a Europe which risks slowly losing its own soul.

We should play the role and realize that we are transcendent of it, and playing into it.

But on a deeper, more transcendent level, Grenier is indeed on intimate terms with all these figures and their writing.

While he was in a coma for seven days, his consciousness entered a series of transcendent realms.

Scientists believe this is the basis of transcendent states of consciousness.

They admit that a Feejee cannibal has just the same "mighty and transcendent soul" that they themselves have.

Some minds are incapable of any activity; others have acquired transcendent faculties.

His very simplicity of style is a proof of his transcendent art, even as it is the evidence of his severity of taste.

His services to the state were transcendent, but his supremest mission was to preserve the Hebrew nation.

Looking upon us, they are blind or of transcendent vision, as you will: the same in issue––so what matter?

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