transcendent adj

1 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" [syn: unknowable]

2 exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence [syn: surpassing]

English

Pronunciation

• /tɹænˈsɛndɛnt/

Adjective

1. surpassing usual limits
2. being beyond the range of normal perception
3. free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity

Related terms

• transcend
• transcendence
• transcendency
• transcendental
• transcendently
• Transcendology

Transcendence may refer to:

• Transcendence (mathematics)
  • Transcendental number, a real number that is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients
  • Transcendental element, an element of a field extension that is not the root of any polynomial with coefficients from the base field
  • Transcendental function, a function which does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves polynomials
• Transcendence (philosophy), climbing or going beyond some philosophical concept or limit
• Transcendence (religion), the concept of being entirely above the created universe.
• Transcendentalism, a philosophical movement that advocates that there is an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical
• Transcendental Perspectivism, a philosophy blending perspectivism and transcendentalism
• Transcendental idealism, a doctrine founded by 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant
• Transcendence (novel), a novel by Charles Sheffield
• Transcendent (novel), a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter
• Transcendence (video game), a science-fiction game by George Moromisato.
• Transcendence (Alice Coltrane album), a jazz album by Alice Coltrane
• Transcendence (Crimson Glory album), a heavy metal album by Crimson Glory
• Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, the longest foot race in the world.

See also

• Transcendental

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