transcendent
trans·cen·dent
adjective
1.
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 life”
2.
exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
Origin
From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.
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