transcendental

adj.

1. Philosophy.
   1. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.
   2. Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.
2. Surpassing all others; superior.
3. Beyond common thought or experience; mystical or supernatural.
4. Mathematics. Of or relating to a real or complex number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.

transcendentally tran'scen·den'tal·ly adv.

adjective

1. Existing only in concept and not in reality: abstract, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, theoretic, theoretical, transcendent. See real/imaginary.
2. Of, coming from, or relating to forces or beings that exist outside the natural world: extramundane, extrasensory, metaphysical, miraculous, preternatural, superhuman, supernatural, superphysical, supersensible, unearthly. See supernatural.

A topic or question is transcendental if its resolution is not purely a matter of logic or mathematics, and also lies beyond the scope both of sense experience and of the proper use of theory answerable to sense experience. Transcendental questions include religious questions, but may also include those raised by metaphysical problems, such as scepticism and physicalism. Philosophical attitudes to such questions range from fascination to outright denial of their existence (see logical positivism).

Common misspelling(s) of transcendental

• transcendentational

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - transcendental

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    transcendental meditation

Nederlands (Dutch)
bovenzinnelijk

Français (French)
adj. - transcendantal

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    méditation transcendantale

Deutsch (German)
adj. - transzendental

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    transzendentale Meditation

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (φιλοσ.) υπερβατικός, υπερφυσικός

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    υπερβατικός διαλογισμός

Italiano (Italian)
trascendentale

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    meditazione trascendentale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - transcendental, obscuro, sobrenatural

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    meditação transcendental

Русский (Russian)
внеопытный, сверхопытный

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    трансцендентальная медитация, (трансцендентальное размышление)

Español (Spanish)
adj. - trascendental

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    meditación trascendental

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - transcendental

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
先验的, 超凡的, 卓越的

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    印度教的超脱静坐

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 先驗的, 超凡的, 卓越的

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    印度教的超脫靜坐

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 초월적인, 가공할 만한 힘을 가진, 초자연적인

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 人知の及ばない, 超自然的な, 先験的な, すぐれた, あいまいな

idioms:

• transcendental meditation    超越瞑想法

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) فائق, متجاوز الحد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מעבר להכרה, מופלא, מעורפל, מופשט, טרנסצנדנטלי, משוער מראש, ללא התנסות (פילוסופיה), מסביר את החומר ועצמים אובייקטיביים כיצירי המוח הסובייקטיבי (פילוסופיה)‬

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