self-transcendence

American  

[self-tran-send-uhns] / ˈsɛlf trænˈsɛnd əns /

noun

1. the act or capacity to transcend one's current abilities, level of consciousness, understanding, etc.

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self-transcendence

It was about nature increasing these feelings of self-transcendence, and then that increased feelings of humanization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

Nevertheless, treatments that promote greater self-transcendence and mindfulness have also been shown to contribute to improvements in all aspects of health, including physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2024

This informational lens is the crux of transhumanism—its scientific convictions and confidence in prospects for humanity’s technological self-transcendence into posthumanity.

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2022

Yet for such a combative rationalist, he remains incongruously keen on what the besandalled used to call self-transcendence.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2019

In this way, however, romantic art becomes art which transcends itself, carrying on this process of self-transcendence within its own artistic sphere and artistic form.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

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