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trans-phenomenal

trans-phenomenal is the alternative form of transphenomenal.

Meaning of transphenomenal

Adjective

transphenomenal (not comparable)

  1. (especially) Of or pertaining to a process, nature, or realm which cannot be directly experienced using such human faculties as conceptualization or perception by means of the five senses.
    • We have said that the distinction between phenomena and the trans-phenomenal is founded upon and interwoven with the distinction in our conscious experience, or in the nature and process of knowledge, between sense and the intelligible, or, better, the spiritual conditions of sense, or between...1894, George Sylvester Morris, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Critical Exposition, page 193

Questions about trans-phenomenal

What is trans-phenomenal the alternative form of?
Trans-phenomenal is the alternative form of transphenomenal.

Words near trans-phenomenal in the dictionary

  1. trans-Neptunian objects
  2. Trans-New Guinea
  3. Trans-New Guinean
  4. trans-Oceania
  5. trans-Pacific
  6. trans-phenomenal
  7. trans-ship
  8. trans-shipped
  9. trans-shipping
  10. trans-shippings
  11. trans-ships

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