单词 | transcendentalism |
释义 | transcendentalism[ tran-sen-den-tl-iz-uhm, -suhn- ] / ˌtræn sɛnˈdɛn tlˌɪz əm, -sən- / nountranscendental character, thought, or language. Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson. Origin of transcendentalismFrom the German word Transcendentalismus, dating back to 1795–1805. See transcendental, -ism OTHER WORDS FROM transcendentalismtran·scen·den·tal·ist, noun, adjectiveWords nearby transcendentalismtranscendental dialectic, transcendental ego, transcendental equation, transcendental function, transcendental idealism, transcendentalism, transcendentalize, transcendental logic, transcendental meditation, transcendental number, transcendental unity of apperception Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for transcendentalismBritish Dictionary definitions for transcendentalismtranscendentalism / (ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntəˌlɪzəm) / noun
vague philosophical speculation the state of being transcendental something, such as thought or language, that is transcendental Derived forms of transcendentalismtranscendentalist, noun, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for transcendentalismtranscendentalism A movement in nineteenth-century American literature and thought. It called on people to view the objects in the world as small versions of the whole universe and to trust their individual intuitions. The two most noted American transcendentalists were Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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