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transcendentalists

transcendentalists is the plural of transcendentalist.

Meaning of transcendentalist

Noun

transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)

  1. 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
  2. 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

Questions about transcendentalists

What is transcendentalists the plural of?
Transcendentalists is the plural of transcendentalist.

Words near transcendentalists in the dictionary

  1. transcendentalising
  2. transcendentalism
  3. transcendentalisms
  4. transcendentalist
  5. transcendentalistic
  6. transcendentalists
  7. transcendentalities
  8. transcendentality
  9. transcendentalize
  10. transcendentalized
  11. transcendentalizes

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