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Transcendental

/ˌtɹænsɛnˈdɛntəl/

A transcendentalist.

📖 Definitions of "Transcendental"

noun
  1. 1

    A transcendentalist.

  2. 2

    (Platonism, Christian theology, usually in the plural) Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.

adjective
  1. 1

    Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.

  2. 2

    Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.

  3. 3

    Mystical or supernatural.

  4. 4

    (of a number or an element of an extension field) Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).

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