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to transcendentalize

to transcendentalize

1 9.9
To make something seem spiritual and beyond normal life
  • verb
  • /trænˈsɛnˌdɛntəlaɪz/
  • Literature
: transcendentalizar
  • The film director's style tends to transcendentalize ordinary moments, making them feel profound.

Examples

  • The artist tried to transcendentalize the landscape by using vivid colors and dreamlike shapes.

  • Philosophers sometimes transcendentalize everyday concepts to explore deeper meanings.

  • The artist aims to transcendentalize the ordinary into something extraordinary.

  • Can you transcendentalize this concept for the audience?

  • The artist tried to transcendentalize the landscape by using vivid colors and dreamlike shapes.

  • Philosophers sometimes transcendentalize everyday concepts to explore deeper meanings.

  • The film director's style tends to transcendentalize ordinary moments, making them feel profound.

Synonyms

to spiritualize
vsto transcendentalize
1 8.0

To give something a religious meaning or feeling

is broader, making things seem spiritual, abstract, or beyond ordinary experience
to etherealize
vsto transcendentalize
  • Literature
1 9.9

To make something look light and delicate in a spiritual way

emphasizes spiritual or beyond experience without the delicate, airy sense
to supernaturalize
vsto transcendentalize
1 9.9

Give a person or thing powers beyond what is normal

focuses on spiritual or abstract appearance rather than literal powers

Surface Forms

transcendentalize infinitive
transcendentalized past
transcendentalized past participle
transcendentalizing present participle
transcendentalizes third person singular

Morphology

transcendentalize = transcendental (transparent) = transcend + al + ize

The sense 'to make something appear spiritual or beyond ordinary experience' follows directly from 'transcendental' + '-ize' and is derivable by speakers who know the base adjective.

Etymology

The word transcendentalize comes from trans- 'across' and ascend 'to climb', like the word transcend 'go beyond', so it suggests lifting something above the everyday. That's why to transcendentalize a scene or idea is to make it feel spiritual, abstract, or beyond ordinary experience.