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transcendental

/ˌtɹænsɛnˈdɛntəl/
noun
  1. A transcendentalist.

  2. (Platonism, Christian theology, usually in the plural) Any one of the three transcendental properties of being: truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.

adjective
  1. Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.

  2. Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.

  3. Mystical or supernatural.

Antonymsalgebraic, algebraic

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