transcendental
- adjective
- /ˌtræn.sɛnˈdɛn.təl/
- Formal
- Practicing meditation can lead to a transcendental state of consciousness that feels otherworldly.
- Transcendental Meditation
- Transcendental Meditation program
- Transcendental Meditation practice
But what emerged is that these two awesome poets both view as almost transcendental rhythmic figures.
- But what emerged is that these two awesome poets both view as almost transcendental rhythmic figures.
- And you can think of that as God if you like, or some sort of transcendental ideal.
- Experience the transcendental experience the one and only Jeremy Renner.
- And, and, and having those moments of those transcendental moments where you where you realize that there is something greater.
- It's like too many things going on this industrial technos like, you know, this African like rain dances, like it's this transcendental trance.
- So anyone who has had a psychedelic experience that is transcendental probably is really vibing with what Suzanne is talking about.
- There are people who report that in transcendental states they are experiencing a source of love and wholeness and goodness.
- Well, I think it only takes one mystical moment, one transcendental moment for us to realize that we're missing out on a little bit of reality.
- Energy immediately moves into the heart and then you see a transcendental thing occur amongst the collective and we now know that people change people.
Examples
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Well, I think it only takes one mystical moment, one transcendental moment for us to realize that we're missing out on a little bit of reality.
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For shamans and mystics, light is not an abstract concept or a metaphor but, rather, a transcendental experience.
Academic text (1990) -
And you can think of that as God if you like, or some sort of transcendental ideal.
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I see a transcendental beauty there... beyond anything I could ever, ever imagine.
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The interesting thing is that something can only be absolute when it's transcendental, when it's beyond time.
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Much of this process can be understood as a transcendental change.
Academic text (1999) -
It is an image of the world without another transcendental world beyond or behind it.
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His face seems to radiate an inner light, a transcendental beauty.
Fiction book (1990) -
There are people who report that in transcendental states they are experiencing a source of love and wholeness and goodness.
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You can call it whatever you want, but to me, that's the ecstatic transcendental experience that we can have as humans.
Synonyms
Having a spiritual quality that feels beyond normal understanding
Seeming to come from another world and very strange
Far beyond normal limits in experience, knowledge, or quality
About the basic nature of reality and things you cannot see or touch
Very unusual in a way that seems beyond what is natural
Having a beautiful, heavenly look or sound that feels holy
Beyond the physical world and normal human experience
Existing beyond the physical world and not able to be seen or touched
Something beyond normal experience that science cannot explain
A thing that seems from another world and gives a calm, spiritual feeling
Like something from a world beyond the moon and ordinary life
Not of this world and seeming like a dream
Beyond the moon and ordinary life, like something from another world
People or machines make it, not plants and animals
An experience or idea that reason cannot fully explain
Beyond what the mind can fully understand
Existing beyond the basic nature of something in religion and philosophy
Compounds
- Specialized
A number that is not a solution of any polynomial equation with rational coefficients
- Specialized
Study of ideas that values inner feeling and spiritual belief over facts
How Transcendental
- Formal
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word transcendental comes from the Latin parts trans- 'across' and scend, like the word ascend, which means 'to climb'. It gives the image of 'climbing across' normal limits to reach something beyond the natural world, so transcendental describes things outside ordinary experience.