adj. & n.
adj. 1 excelling, surpassing (transcendent merit). 2 transcending human experience. 3 Philos. a higher than or not included in any of Aristotle's ten categories in scholastic philosophy. b not realizable in experience in Kantian philosophy. 4 (esp. of the supreme being) existing apart from, not subject to the limitations of, the material universe (opp. IMMANENT).
n. Philos. a transcendent thing. transcendence n. transcendency n. transcendently adv.