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transcendence

UK/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndəns/US/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndəns/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,051 of 15,258leans written

Transcendence is rising above the limits of ordinary experience. Seek transcendence.

It belongs to religion and philosophy and is claimed by music more often than either. Transcendence is described by everybody who reports it as impossible to describe.

Definitions of transcendence

  1. 1nountranscendenceRising above the limits of ordinary experience.C1

    “The whole practice was aimed at transcendence rather than at calm.”

transcendence is a state.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    transcendō — to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend

  2. Old French

    transcender

  3. Middle English

    transcenden

  4. English

    transcend

  5. English, today

    transcendence

Built from

  • trans · Latin — over
  • scandō · Latin — to climb

From transcend + -ence. transcend comes from Middle English transcenden, from Old French transcender, from Latin transcendō (“to climb over, step over, surpass, transcend”), from trans (“over”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan; compare ascend, descend.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

transcendence in the wild

  • Religions offer differing explanations of the relationship between immanence and transcendence.

    Immanence

  • For example, the dimension of an algebraic variety is the transcendence degree of its function field.

    Transcendental extension

  • In religious experience, transcendence is a state of being that has overcome the limitations of physical existence, and by some definitions, has also become independent of it.

    Transcendence (religion)

  • Although transcendence is defined as the opposite of immanence, the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

    Transcendence (religion)

  • Self-transcendence is a personality trait that involves the expansion or evaporation of personal boundaries.

    Self-transcendence

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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the scandō family

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