transcendence
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tran·scen·dent
(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
a. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
b. 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.
tran·scen′dence, tran·scen′den·cy n.
tran·scen′dent·ly adv.
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tran•scend•ence
(trænˈsɛn dəns)also tran•scend′en•cy,
n.
the quality or state of being transcendent.
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Noun | 1. | transcendence - a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience |
2. | transcendence - the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits |
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transcendence
transcendencynoun greatness, excellence, superiority, supremacy, ascendancy, pre-eminence, sublimity, paramountcy, incomparability, matchlessness the absolute transcendence of God over all human knowledge and work
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transcendence
, transcendencyn → Erhabenheit f; (Philos) → Transzendenz f
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