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transcendentalism

noun

Etymology

From transcendental + -ism.

  1. derived from *skend-✻ — “to ascend; to jump up”
  2. derived from *terh₂-✻ — “to cross over; to overcome; to pass through”
  3. derived from trānscendentem
  4. learned borrowing from transcendentālis
  5. suffixed as transcendentalism — “transcendental + ism”

Definitions

  1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental…

    The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

  2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

  3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with…

    A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.

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    1. A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were…

      A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

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