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.
Derivatives:
transcendence n. transcendency n. transcendently adv.