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Transcendent

Transcendent Meaning & Definition
Transcendent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Transcendent?

[adj] beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of lifer"
[adj] exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence

Synonyms | Synonyms for Transcendent: superior | surpassing | unknowable | unknown

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Transcendent In Webster's Dictionary

\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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