transcendence
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- noun
- /trænˈsɛndəns/
- Formal
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trascendencia
- Through meditation, he experienced a profound sense of transcendence that lifted him above his daily struggles.
- self-transcendence
- divine transcendence
- spiritual transcendence
The transcendence of thinking means the transcendence of the egoic mind.
- The transcendence of thinking means the transcendence of the egoic mind.
- Once you get to these last three aspects of yoga, transcendence is the key.
- The stars came out and something switched in me and I called it transcendence through exhaustion.
- The world is just overflowing with beauty and majesty and transcendence.
- They had their gods, but it wasn't a sort of a personal transcendence type of philosophy with regards to that.
- Like, because it satisfies this very deep need we have for transcendence and meaning that got stripped away when we became secular.
- And people will tell researchers that when they listen to sad music, they feel like connected to states of wonder and awe and transcendence.
- So for me, transcendence is what it's all about.
- And then there is a whole other universe of transcendence that happens in the processes of technique.
- And it was through reason that connected man as as they viewed humans with transcendence and eternity.
- Identify with your finite transcendence, Marcus Aurelius.
- It's actually this juxtaposition that allows us to have that sense of transcendence.
- I think those moments of transcendence can never get us to an absolute view from nowhere.
Examples
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Tourism is linked with the perceived transcendence of class barriers in the twentieth and twenty-first century West.
Academic text (2008) -
Mountains have a particular significance for Taoism because it is believed that that's where the transcendence or immortals dwell.
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Do you think the concept of transcendence is possible?
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So for me, transcendence is what it's all about.
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His deepest concern was for the loss of the transcendence of the human spirit.
Academic text (1991) -
We long for love and justice, beauty, transcendence, because they echo the voice calling us to know their origin.
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How can music teachers convey this transcendence to their students?
Academic text (2011) -
The upward movement is that development toward self-transcendence that I have just described.
Academic text (2008) -
And you can see that if your goal is self transcendence and you focus your entire training around that, it can't but be a spiritual path.
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We are asked to reckon with the idea that taking his life, taking flight from the corporeal existence, is perhaps for Milkman a transcendence and not a tragedy.
Synonyms
Being beyond ordinary human experience
How Spiritual
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- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Transcendence comes from Latin parts trans- 'beyond' and scend 'to climb', the same root as ascend 'to go up'. So, imagine 'climbing beyond' the normal world — rising above the physical or ordinary experience.