transcendent
adjective
- Scholasticism.above all possible modes of the infinite.
- Kantianism.transcending experience; not realizable in human experience.Compare transcendental(defs 5a, c).
- (in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.
noun Mathematics.
Origin of transcendent
Related Words for transcendent
fantastic, abstract, otherworldly, supernatural, ultimate, sublime, absolute, accomplished, boundless, consummate, entire, eternal, finished, hypothetical, ideal, incomparable, infinite, innate, intact, intellectualExamples from the Web for transcendent
Contemporary Examples of transcendent
A Europe which is no longer open to the transcendent dimension of life is a Europe which risks slowly losing its own soul.
We should play the role and realize that we are transcendent of it, and playing into it.
While he was in a coma for seven days, his consciousness entered a series of transcendent realms.
Scientists believe this is the basis of transcendent states of consciousness.
Chi, like Samantha (Scarlett Johannson), ends up becoming a transcendent being that threatens her relationship with a human.
Historical Examples of transcendent
But, after all, I hope I shall be enabled to be honest to a merit so transcendent.
Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
Our town, as may be imagined, buzzed with transcendent gossip on the morrow.
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
Also he sometimes supposes that God is immanent in the world, sometimes that he is transcendent.
TimaeusPlato
Society is sure to slander a woman of transcendent beauty and intellect.
An OutcastF. Colburn Adams
This is one of the transcendent issues involved in this contest.