transcendentalism
[tran-sen-den-tl-iz-uh m, -suh n-]
noun
transcendental character, thought, or language.
Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson.
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dreamer, visionary, optimist, enthusiast, romantic, radical, escapist, utopian, stargazer, seer, romanticist, Platonist, romancerExamples from the Web for transcendentalist
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Is he not a transcendentalist, at least in the German sense of the word?
The Book of KhalidAmeen Rihani
Yet at heart Meckel was a transcendentalist of the German school.
Form and FunctionE. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
That is practical transcendentalism, and you are a transcendentalist.
But then he was a transcendentalist and an intellectual anarch.
IconoclastsJames Huneker
I am, moreover, to be perfectly frank, a transcendentalist on the subject of marriage.
At LargeArthur Christopher Benson
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