Definition for
transcendent
– Surpassing; excelling; superior or supreme; extraordinary: as, transcendent worth.
– In scholastic philos., not included under one of the ten categories; higher than the categories.
– In Kantian philosophy, transcending experience; unrealizable in experience; not an object of possible experience.
– Transcending the universe of matter; not essentially connected with the universe; not cosmic: as, a transcendent deity.
– SynonymsPreëminent, surpassing, supereminent, unequaled, unparalleled, unrivaled, peerless.
noun – That which surpasses or excels; anything greatly superior or supereminent.
noun – In metaphysics: A reality above the categories or predicaments.
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