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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tran•scen•den•tal /ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntəl, -sən-/USA pronunciation adj. - being beyond ordinary experience, thought, or belief.
tran•scen•den•tal•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tran•scen•den•tal (tran′sen den′tl, -sən-),USA pronunciation adj. - transcendent, surpassing, or superior.
- being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief;
supernatural. - abstract or metaphysical.
- idealistic, lofty, or extravagant.
- [Philos.]
- beyond the contingent and accidental in human experience, but not beyond all human knowledge. Cf. transcendent (def. 4b).
- pertaining to certain theories, etc., explaining what is objective as the contribution of the mind.
- [Kantianism.]of, pertaining to, based upon, or concerned with a priori elements in experience, which condition human knowledge. Cf. transcendent (def. 4b).
n. - [Math.]See transcendental number.
- transcendentals, [Scholasticism.]categories that have universal application, as being, one, true, good.
- Medieval Latin trānscendentālis. See transcendent, -al1
- 1615–25
tran′scen•den•tal ′i•ty, n. tran′scen•den ′tal•lyadv. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: transcendental /ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntəl/ adj - transcendent, superior, or surpassing
- (in the philosophy of Kant) (of a judgment or logical deduction) being both synthetic and a priori
- of or relating to knowledge of the presuppositions of thought
- beyond our experience of phenomena, although not beyond potential knowledge
- surpassing the natural plane of reality or knowledge; supernatural or mystical
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