| a. | 1. | Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; |
| 2. | (Kantian Philos.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; - applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect. | |
| n. | 1. | That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent. |
| Adj. | 1. | transcendent - beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of lifer" Synonyms: unknowable |
| 2. | transcendent - exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence Synonyms: surpassing |
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