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English

Etymology

transcendental +? -ism

Noun

transcendentalism (countable and uncountable, plural transcendentalisms)

1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
4. A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

Related terms

• philosophy
• religion
• transcendental
• transcendentalist

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See also

• transcendentalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantalisme

Noun

transcendentalism n (uncountable)

1. transcendentalism

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English transcenden, from Old French transcender, from Latin transcendere (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandere (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?æn(t)?s?nd/

Verb

transcend (third-person singular simple present transcends, present participle transcending, simple past and past participle transcended)

1. (transitive) to pass beyond the limits of something.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     such personal popes, emperors, or elective kings, as shall transcend their limits

2. (transitive) to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
   • c. 1698, John Dryden, Epitaph on the Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady (

     How much her worth transcended all her kind.

3. (obsolete) To climb; to mount.
   • September 5 1632, James Howell, "To Sir Tho. Haw." in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     your Muse soars up to the upper, and transcending that too, takes her fight among the Celestial bodies

Synonyms

• (to pass beyond the limits of something): exceed, overgo, surpass; see also Thesaurus:transcend
• (to surpass something): better, dwarf, eclipse; see also Thesaurus:exceed
• (to climb): ascend

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Further reading

• transcend in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• transcend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.