transcendent: betydning og definisjoner

Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.

Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: "fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor” ( National Review).

Philosophy Transcending the Aristotelian categories.

Philosophy In Kant's theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.

Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity.