transcendency

Variant of transcendent

adjective

  1. transcending; surpassing; excelling; extraordinary
  2. Philos.
    1. beyond the limits of possible experience
    2. in Kantianism, beyond human knowledge
  3. Theol. existing apart from the material universe: said of God

Origin: L transcendens, prp. of transcendere

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