transcendent

(trăn-sĕn'dənt)
adj.

1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor" (National Review).
3. Philosophy.
   1. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
   2. In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.

transcendence tran·scen'dence or tran·scen'den·cy n.
transcendently tran·scen'dent·ly adv.

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1. The word used in general contexts to mean 'excelling, surpassing normal human experience' is transcendent, which typically collocates with words for grand notions such as beauty, good, and truth. It is wasted in mundane and trivial contexts such as descriptions of sports events

(Wales and South Africa derived almost equal pleasure from a transcendent test match—Express, 2004).

2. Transcendental has the basic meaning 'outside experience' and is used mainly in technical contexts: (1) in theology, to refer to God as being outside the universe, the opposite of immanent (see at imminent), (2) in philosophy to denote the teaching of the 19th century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, and (3) in the term transcendental meditation, a form of meditation derived from Hinduism.

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adjective

1. Of the greatest possible degree, quality, or intensity: extreme, supreme, ultimate, unsurpassable, utmost, uttermost. See better/worse, big/small/amount.
2. Existing only in concept and not in reality: abstract, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, theoretic, theoretical, transcendental. See real/imaginary.

For a list of words related to transcendence, see:

• Religious States and Experiences - transcendence: state of God’s nature or highest principle as above and apart from immanent Creation
• Mystical States and Experiences - transcendence: state of being beyond limits of everyday experience, reality, or comprehension; supernatural, unified, or spiritual realm
• Practice, Discipline, and Belief - transcendence: quality of being beyond what is experienced and perceived in material world

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See words rhyming with "transcendency."

Common misspelling(s) of transcendent

• transcendant
• trancendent

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - transcendent (dvs. som ligger uden for erfaringens grænser), som overgår andre, ophøjet
n. - transcendent

Nederlands (Dutch)
transcendent, (alles) overtreffend

Français (French)
adj. - transcendant
n. - (Math) fonction transcendantale

Deutsch (German)
adj. - transzendent
n. - etwas Transzendentes

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (φιλοσ.) υπερβατικός, υπεραισθητός
n. - (φιλοσ.) υπερβατικό

Italiano (Italian)
trascendentale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - transcendente, extraordinário, sublime
n. - independente das limitações do universo material (m)

Русский (Russian)
запредельный, превосходящий, превосходный, выдающийся

Español (Spanish)
adj. - trascendente, sobresaliente, extraordinario
n. - (mat.) función trascendental

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - transcendent, överlägsen, enastående
n. - transcendental funktion (mat.), transcendental sak el. person

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
卓越的, 出众的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 卓越的, 出眾的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 초월적인, 선험적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 卓越した, 超越的な, 抜群の, 超絶的な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غامض, مبهم, متجاوز الحد, فائق (الاسم) سمو, تجاوز, تفوق‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נשגב מבינת אנוש, עילאי, נעלה, טרנסצנדנטי, אינו ניתן להגשמה באופו ניסיוני (פילוסופיה), קיימת בנפרד, לכשעצמה, אינה כפופה למגבלות היקום החומרי (ישות עליונה)‬
n. - ‮אדם או דבר עילאיים‬

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