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transcendentalism
noun tran·scen·den·tal·ism \-tə-ˌli-zəm\
: a philosophy which says that thought and spiritual things are more real than ordinary human experience and material things
Full Definition of TRANSCENDENTALISM
1
: a philosophy that emphasizes the a priori conditions of knowledge and experience or the unknowable character of ultimate reality or that emphasizes the transcendent as the fundamental reality
2
: a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material and empirical
3
: the quality or state of being transcendental; especially : visionary idealism
— tran·scen·den·tal·ist \-tə-list\ adjective or noun
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First Known Use of TRANSCENDENTALISM
1803
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