transcendentalism

English

Etymology

From transcendental +‎ -ism.

Noun

transcendentalism (countable and uncountable, plural transcendentalisms)

1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
4. A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

Related terms

• philosophy
• religion
• transcendental
• transcendentalist

Translations

the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge

• Catalan: transcendentalisme m
• French: transcendentalisme m
• Hindi: अनुभवातीतवाद (anubhvātītvād), अतींद्रियवाद (atīndriyvād), इंद्रियातीतवाद (indriyātītvād), प्रागनुभविकवाद (prāgnubhvikvād)

ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction

• Catalan: transcendentalisme m

a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality

• Catalan: transcendentalisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超驗主義／超验主义 (chāoyàn zhǔyì), 超越論／超越论 (zh) (chāoyuèlùn)

• German: Transzendentalismus (de) m
• Japanese: 超絶主義 (ちょうぜつしゅぎ, chōzetsushugi), 超越主義 (ちょうえつしゅぎ, chōetsushugi)
• Kazakh: трансцендентализм (transsendentalizm)
• Korean: 초월주의(超驗主義) (chowoljuui)
• Kyrgyz: трансцендентализм (transtsendentalizm)
• Latin: transcendentalismus m
• Polish: transcendentalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: transcendentalismo m
• Turkish: transandantalizm (tr)

a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超驗主義／超验主义 (chāoyàn zhǔyì), 超越主義／超越主义 (chāoyuè zhǔyì)

• German: Transzendentalismus (de) m
• Japanese: 超絶主義 (ちょうぜつしゅぎ, chōzetsushugi), 超越主義 (ちょうえつしゅぎ, chōetsushugi)
• Kazakh: трансцендентализм (transsendentalizm)
• Korean: 초월주의(超驗主義) (chowoljuui)
• Kyrgyz: трансцендентализм (transtsendentalizm)
• Latin: transcendentalismus m
• Polish: transcendentalizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: transcendentalismo
• Swedish: transcendentalism c
• Turkish: transandantalizm (tr)

See also

• transcendentalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French transcendantalisme.

Noun

transcendentalism n (uncountable)

1. transcendentalism

Declension

declension of transcendentalism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) transcendentalism	transcendentalismul
genitive/dative	(unui) transcendentalism	transcendentalismului
vocative	transcendentalismule