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English
Etymology
transcendental + -ist
Noun
transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)
- One who believes in transcendentalism.
1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience , London: Longmans, Green & Co.:“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!”
- 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.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French transcendantaliste.
Noun
transcendentalist m (plural transcendentaliști)
- transcendentalist
Declension
Declension of transcendentalist