transcendence

Etymology

transcend + -ence

noun

  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 principle 1884, Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought
  5. (mathematics) The property of being a transcendental number.

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