transcendence
noun/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndəns/
Etymology From transcend + -ence.
1
The act of surpassing usual limits.
2
The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
3
The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
4
Superior excellence; supereminence.
- The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity as its controlling principle1884, Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought:
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Mathematics, Sciences The property of being a transcendental number.
- Antonyms
- immanence
- Derived terms
- hypertranscendence, supertranscendence, transcendence degree
- Related terms
- transcend, transcendency, transcendent, transcendental, transcendently