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transcendent

trans·cen·dent

UK/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndənt/ US/træˈnsɛndʌnt/ rare

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”
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Origin

From transcend + -ent, or borrowed from Latin trānscendēns.

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