Definitions for transcendent

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transcendent tran·scend·ent

Spelling: [tran-sen-duh nt]

IPA: /trænˈsɛn dənt/

Transcendent is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 864 anagrams from letters in transcendent (acdeennnrstt).

Definitions for transcendent

noun

1. a transcendental function.

adjective

1. going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
2. superior or supreme.
3. Theology. (of the Deity) transcending the universe, time, etc. Compare immanent (def 3).
4. Philosophy. Scholasticism. above all possible modes of the infinite. Kantianism. transcending experience; not realizable in human experience. Compare transcendental (defs 5a, c). (in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.

Origin of transcendent

1575-85; Latin trānscendent- (stem of trānscendēns), present participle of trānscendere. See transcend, -ent

Examples for transcendent

This is one of the transcendent issues involved in this contest.

While he was in a coma for seven days, his consciousness entered a series of transcendent realms.

Chi, like Samantha (Scarlett Johannson), ends up becoming a transcendent being that threatens her relationship with a human.

Also he sometimes supposes that God is immanent in the world, sometimes that he is transcendent.

Our town, as may be imagined, buzzed with transcendent gossip on the morrow.

Society is sure to slander a woman of transcendent beauty and intellect.

Scientists believe this is the basis of transcendent states of consciousness.

But, after all, I hope I shall be enabled to be honest to a merit so transcendent.

A Europe which is no longer open to the transcendent dimension of life is a Europe which risks slowly losing its own soul.

We should play the role and realize that we are transcendent of it, and playing into it.