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transcendental

transcendental

7 9.6
Beyond the natural world and ordinary experience
  • adjective
  • /ˌtræn.sɛnˈdɛn.təl/
  • Formal
translation icon : trascendental
  • Practicing meditation can lead to a transcendental state of consciousness that feels otherworldly.
  • Transcendental Meditation
  • Transcendental Meditation program
  • Transcendental Meditation practice

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Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I see a transcendental beauty there... beyond anything I could ever, ever imagine.

  • The interesting thing is that something can only be absolute when it's transcendental, when it's beyond time.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You can call it whatever you want, but to me, that's the ecstatic transcendental experience that we can have as humans.

Synonyms

mystical
vstranscendental
106 7.1

Having a spiritual quality that feels beyond normal understanding

is about existing outside the natural world rather than mainly being mysterious
otherworldly
vstranscendental
  • Literature
36 7.8

Seeming to come from another world and very strange

is about existing beyond the natural world rather than only seeming strange
transcendent
vstranscendental
31 8.8

Far beyond normal limits in experience, knowledge, or quality

is specifically beyond the natural world rather than only beyond ordinary limits
metaphysical
vstranscendental
  • Formal
23 9.4

About the basic nature of reality and things you cannot see or touch

stresses existence outside the natural world rather than philosophical study
preternatural
vstranscendental
5 9.8

Very unusual in a way that seems beyond what is natural

is about existing outside the natural world rather than only being extraordinary
supernal
vstranscendental
  • Literature
1 9.9

Having a beautiful, heavenly look or sound that feels holy

is broader, covering being outside the natural world not only heavenly things
transmundane
vstranscendental
  • Literature
9.9

Beyond the physical world and normal human experience

is about being outside the natural world in a supernatural or abstract way
supramundane
vstranscendental
9.9

Existing beyond the physical world and not able to be seen or touched

is about being outside the natural world rather than just above it
supranormal
vstranscendental
9.9

Something beyond normal experience that science cannot explain

focuses on being outside the natural world rather than just unexplained phenomena
ultraterrene
vstranscendental
  • Literature
9.9

A thing that seems from another world and gives a calm, spiritual feeling

refers more directly to existence outside the natural world itself
translunary
vstranscendental
  • Archaic
9.9

Like something from a world beyond the moon and ordinary life

is about being outside the natural world broadly, not just beyond the moon
translunar
vstranscendental
  • Literature
9.9

Not of this world and seeming like a dream

is focused on existing outside the natural world rather than literary effect
superlunary
vstranscendental
  • Literature
9.9

Beyond the moon and ordinary life, like something from another world

is about actual existence outside the natural world rather than poetic distance
nonnatural
vstranscendental
8.4

People or machines make it, not plants and animals

emphasizes existence beyond the natural world rather than mere nonconformity
transrational
vstranscendental
9.9

An experience or idea that reason cannot fully explain

is about being outside the natural world rather than exceeding reason alone
suprarational
vstranscendental
  • Formal
9.9

Beyond what the mind can fully understand

focuses instead on existence beyond the natural world, not only reason
superessential
vstranscendental
  • Specialized
9.9

Existing beyond the basic nature of something in religion and philosophy

is concerned with existence outside the natural world rather than essence alone

Compounds

transcendental number
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A number that is not a solution of any polynomial equation with rational coefficients

9.9

Study of ideas that values inner feeling and spiritual belief over facts

How Transcendental

divine
218 5.3
supernatural
115 6.7
transcendental
  • Formal
7 9.6
metaphysical
  • Formal
23 9.4
abstract
86 7.4

Surface Forms

transcendental positive

Morphology

transcendental = transcend (transparent) = transcend + al

Meaning is directly derived from the verb 'transcend' with the adjectival suffix '-al', so learners who know 'transcend' can infer this sense.

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.