transcendentalist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From transcendental + -ist.
Noun
[edit]transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)
- One who believes in transcendentalism.
- 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:
- “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.
Related terms
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French transcendantaliste.
Noun
[edit]transcendentalist m (plural transcendentaliști)
Declension
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | transcendentalist | transcendentalistul | transcendentaliști | transcendentaliștii | |
| genitive-dative | transcendentalist | transcendentalistului | transcendentaliști | transcendentaliștilor | |
| vocative | transcendentalistule | transcendentaliștilor | |||