transcendent
adjective
- transcending; surpassing; excelling; extraordinary
- Philos.
- beyond the limits of possible experience
- in Kantianism, beyond human knowledge
- Theol. existing apart from the material universe: said of God
See transcendent in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(trăn-sĕnˈdənt)
adjective- 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
a. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
b. 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.
Related Forms:
- tran·scenˈdence, tran·scenˈden·cy noun
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