Found 2 items, similar to Transcendent.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: transcendent transcendent adj 1: beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; “philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself...”- W.P.Alston; “the unknowable mysteries of lifer” [syn: unknowable] 2: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence [syn: surpassing]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Transcendent Transcendent \Tran*scend"ent\, a. [L. transcendens, -entis, p. pr. of transcendere to transcend: cf. F. transcendant, G. transcendent.] 1. Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor. [1913 Webster] Clothed with transcendent brightness. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect. [1913 Webster] Transcendent \Tran*scend"ent\, n. That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent. [1913 Webster]