transcendentalist
transcendentalist noun: one who believes in transcendentalism.
Noun
transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)
- One who believes in transcendentalism.
- “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!”1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- transcendental
- Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
- Synonyms:
- transcendental
Synonyms of transcendentalist
Forms of transcendentalist
| plural | transcendentalists |
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Origin of transcendentalist
From transcendental + -ist.
Questions about transcendentalist
- What does transcendentalist mean?
- Transcendentalist means one who believes in transcendentalism.
- What part of speech is transcendentalist?
- Transcendentalist is a noun.
- What is the plural of transcendentalist?
- The plural of transcendentalist is transcendentalists.
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