tran|scend´ent|ness

tran|scend´ent|ness
tran|scend|ent «tran SEHN duhnt», adjective.
1. going beyond ordinary limits; excelling; superior; extraordinary. SYNONYM(S): unequaled, unrivaled, peerless, supreme.
2. above and independent of the physical universe.
3. Philosophy. a) transcending the Aristotelian categories or predicaments, especially as considered by the medieval scholastics. b) (in Kantian philosophy) not realizable in human experience.
–tran|scend´ent|ly, adverb.
–tran|scend´ent|ness, noun.

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