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transcendence

/tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndəns/

transcendence noun: the act of surpassing usual limits.

Noun

transcendence (countable and uncountable, plural transcendences)

  1. (countable) The act of surpassing usual limits.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
  3. (uncountable) The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
  4. Superior excellence; supereminence.
    • The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity as its controlling principle1884, Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought
  5. The property of being a transcendental number.

transcendence meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Thai

transcendence in Tamil

உவமையின்மை, தெய்விகம், வரம்புகடந்த நிலை, கடந்த நிலை, கடவு நிலை

transcendence in Urdu

تجاوز, طنزیہ

transcendence in Malayalam

supremacy, excellence, incomparability
ഉത്കൃഷ്ടത, വെെിശഷ്ട്യം, അതീതത്വം, മേന്മ, ശ്രേഷ്ഠത, വെെശേഷ്യം

transcendence in Thai

the state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity
อุตรภาพ

Examples of transcendence in a sentence

  • However, the desperate, nearly terminal celebratoriness of Sabbath’s Theatre associates this reductiveness with a form of transcendence.
  • We have encountered this transcendence before, in other accounts of the highest wisdom.
  • This transcendence is very evident in adynatons which pervade Igbo folklore.

All 19 example sentences with transcendence

Antonyms of transcendence

Forms of transcendence

pluraltranscendences

Origin of transcendence

From transcend + -ence.

Words formed from transcendence

Phrases with transcendence

Questions about transcendence

What does transcendence mean?
Transcendence means the act of surpassing usual limits.
What is transcendence in Tamil?
Transcendence in Tamil is உவமையின்மை, தெய்விகம், வரம்புகடந்த நிலை. See Transcendence meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is transcendence?
Transcendence is a noun.
How do you pronounce transcendence?
Transcendence is pronounced /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndəns/.
What is the plural of transcendence?
The plural of transcendence is transcendences.

Words near transcendence in the dictionary

  1. transcellularly
  2. transcend
  3. transcendability
  4. transcendable
  5. transcended
  6. transcendence
  7. transcendence degree
  8. transcendence degrees
  9. transcendences
  10. transcendencies
  11. transcendency

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Adapted from Wiktionary: transcendence (page history and authors); transcendence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transcendence (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transcendence (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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