transcendent: Meaning and Definition of
tran•scend•ent
Pronunciation: (tran-sen'dunt), [key] — adj.
- going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
- superior or supreme.
- (of the Deity) transcending the universe, time, etc. Cf. immanent (def. 3).
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- Scholasticism.above all possible modes of the infinite.
- Kantianism.transcending experience; not realizable in human experience. Cf. transcendental (defs. 5a, c).
- (in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.
—n. Math. - a transcendental function.
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