Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being transcendent; elevation; loftiness; exaggeration.
Wiktionary
- n. countable the act of surpassing usual limits
- n. uncountable the state of being beyond the range of normal perception
- n. uncountable the state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity
- n. superior excellence; supereminence
GNU Webster's 1913
- The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.
- obsolete Elevation above truth; exaggeration.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- n. a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
Etymologies
- transcend + -ence (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He reserves the term transcendence to describe this act of "world-making.”
“And it seems strangely appropriate also that what goes with this transcendence is a balancing step towards humanity -- an ability to age and die but also an ability to have children.”
“That kind of transcendence is our only hope in a dangerous age like this.”
“It's artful, but calling it an "art game," an experiment, a transcendence, is a bit of a misnomer.”
“Paradoxically, Kierkegaard says the ultimate the transcendence is to choose the religious life, and gay men have to fight for this option in the Christian and Judeo traditions.”
“Desire, not least in matters of racial transcendence, is what secured Mr. Obama's nomination and election.”
The Wall Street Journal: What Obama Could Learn From Tony Blair
“What greater act of transcendence is there than projecting your love and hope onto others?”
The Huffington Post: Robert Lanza, M.D.: Rethinking the Nature of Life
“But let me ask this: does Christianity offer transcendence from the Karmic cycle?”
“A false transcendence is given to things which are very much of this world.”
“While I do believe that learning the basic moves very well, so to speak, can enable a qualitative transformation, the subjective sense of transcendence is in itself no guarantee of quality.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘transcendence’.
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RELI - Christian doctrines
infallibility, inerrancy, communicable attr..., incommunicable at..., fortuitous incarn..., atonement, hypostatic union, mystical union, spirit-baptism, sanctification, indwelling, fruits of the Hol... and 90 more...
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kahleigh's list
therapeutic, charade, chalice, rendezvous, amarulence, bewitched, transcendence, passe, cul-de-sac, boulevard, bouquet, forlorn and 18 more...
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♚ Magic King ♚
Including, but not limited to royalty.
hitherto, whereby, foreknowing, transcendence, notwithstanding, wherewith, forevermore, unrehearsed, sesquicentennial, unitarianism, wherein, folklore and 3 more...
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RELI - properties of the Christian God
eternity, holiness, omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence, omnipresence, immortality, goodness, aseity, graciousness, immanence, immutability and 27 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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enjoidooks's Words
rastafari, facetious, desultory, dubiously, ineluctable, incarnadine, diapason, alembic, empathy, feckless, transcendence, thus and 190 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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Sunbeam
Zoom'om'om; inspiration, vitality, solemness, and sunrays...
inspiral, activation, envision, myselves, recognition, imagination, repattern, exponential, flashforward, syncronicity, swish, sensation and 177 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 204 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1692 more...
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b, e, d, g, p and t
decidedly, drench, defeat, delirium, deviant, distance, dimension, dust, dope, dissolve, dissipate, distortion and 63 more...
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Absolute Favorites
ethereal, chiasmus, vengeance, voracious, traverse, embrace, instinct, blasphemy, in-depth, passionate, obsessive, bliss and 48 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for transcendence.
oroboros For a peek at the 'secret of' see: I plus Not-I equals Everything. Dec 22, 2006