pertaining to what "goes beyond" man, the creation, or ordinary experience (thus used in theology to stress the mysterious, sovereign, or unique character of God)
beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought and claim to be concerned only with thought itself "- W P Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of lifer"
the realm of thought which lies beyond the boundary of pos貞ible knowledge, because it consists of objects which cannot be presented to us in intuition-i e , objects which we can never experience with our senses (sometimes called noumena) The closest we can get to gaining knowledge of the transcendent realm is to think about it by means of ideas (The opposite of 'transcendent' is 'immanent' )
Something that is transcendent goes beyond normal limits or boundaries, because it is more significant than them. the idea of a transcendent God who stood apart from mankind. going far beyond ordinary limits
Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect
Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as transcendent worth; transcendent valor Cloth'd with transcendent brightness -Milton
the realm of thought which lies beyond the boundary of possible knowledge, because it consists of objects which cannot be presented to us in intuition--i e , objects which we can never experience with our senses (sometimes called noumena) The closest we can get to gaining knowledge of the transcendent realm is to think about it by means of ideas (The opposite of 'transcendent' is 'immanent' )