transcendental (redirected from transcendentalize)

tran·scen·den·tal  (trnsn-dntl)

adj.

1. Philosophy

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

b. Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.

2. Surpassing all others; superior.

3. Beyond common thought or experience; mystical or supernatural.

4. Mathematics Of or relating to a real or complex number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.

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transcen·dental·ly adv.

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transcendental [ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛnt^əl]

adj

1. transcendent, superior, or surpassing

2. (Philosophy) (in the philosophy of Kant)

a.  (of a judgment or logical deduction) being both synthetic and a priori

b.  of or relating to knowledge of the presuppositions of thought

3. (Philosophy) Philosophy beyond our experience of phenomena, although not beyond potential knowledge

4. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Theol surpassing the natural plane of reality or knowledge; supernatural or mystical

transcendentality  n

transcendentally  adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	transcendental - existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural supernatural - not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings"
	2.	transcendental - of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material

Translations

transcendental [ˌtrænsenˈdentl]

A. ADJ (Philos) → trascendental

B. CPD transcendental meditation N → meditación f trascendental

transcendental

adj → überirdisch; (Philos) → transzendental; vision → transzendierend; transcendental meditation → transzendentale Meditation; transcendental number (Math) → transzendente Zahl, Transzendente f

transcendental [ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntl] adj (frm) → trascendentale

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transcendental [ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntl] adj (frm) → trascendentale