transcendence

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There's an actual biology of transcendence, that is, Wisdom's neurotransmitters, that's located in the heart, as well as the brain.

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  1. The character of being transcendent; elevation; loftiness; exaggeration. In a most weak and debile minister, great power, great transcendence. Shak., All's Well, ii 3. 40.

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  • How do you create the sense of transcendence, the sense of evoking a perfect world? —  Virginia Postrel on glamour
  • I don't care what you say about the way you create your poetry; it's the manifestation that counts, and the transcendence is there. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • Their protagonists are usually driven by a need for redemption, their villains by a lust for transcendence -- in sum, their take on the religious impulse and the mysteries surrounding it is thoroughly simplistic. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
  • Here the only route to cohesive sanity is transcendence, the ability to perceive and inhabit the Multiverse entire, and the ability to choose one probability wave of self as the attractor and collapse the rest down onto it at will, to become, as McDonald puts it, Our Lady of All Worlds, able to traverse them all. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • This one's about transcendence, a recurrent theme in Wynn's work: just when he's about to go postal, he has an epiphany. —  WordPress.com News
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  1. =F. transcendance =Spanish transcendencia, trascendencia =Portuguese transcendencia =Italian transcendenza, trascendenza, from Late Latin transcendentia, from Latin transcenden (t-)s, transcendent: see transcendent.
 

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