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   transcendent

   /trɑːnˈsɛnd(ə)nt/

   adjective

   • 1. beyond or above the range of normal or physical human experience: "the search for a transcendent level of knowledge"
   • ▪ surpassing the ordinary; exceptional: "her transcendent beauty" Similar superiorsupremeconsummatepredominantpre-eminentascendantparamountsuperlativeuniqueunsurpassedincomparableunrivalledunequalledunparalleledmatchlesspeerlesssecond to noneexcellentexcellinggreatmagnificentOpposite averagemediocre
   • ▪ (of God) existing apart from and not subject to the limitations of the material universe. Similar supernaturalpreternaturaltranscendentalother-worldlysuperhumanmysticalmysticspiritualdivineheavenlyexaltedsublimeetherealnuminoustransmundaneineffableOpposite mundane
   • 2. (in scholastic philosophy) higher than or not included in any of Aristotle's ten categories.
   • ▪ (in Kantian philosophy) not realizable in experience.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin transcendent- ‘climbing over’, from the verb transcendere (see transcend).

   Derivatives

   • 1. transcendently adverb

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