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transcendentalist

noun

Etymology

From transcendental + -ist.

  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 transcendentalist — “transcendental + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who believes in transcendentalism.

  2. Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of…

    Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.

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