transcendent


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
transcendent/tranˈsendənt/
adjective
  • 1 transcending normal or physical human experience.

    ■ (of God) existing apart from and not subject to the limitations of the material universe.

    Often contrasted with immanent.
  • 2 (in scholastic philosophy) higher than or not included in any of Aristotle's ten categories.
  • 3 (in Kantian philosophy) not realizable in experience.
– derivatives
transcendence noun,
transcendency noun,
transcendently adverb.
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