transcendentalist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who believes in transcendentalism.
  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.

Word forms

transcendentalist transcendentalists

Etymology

From transcendental + -ist.

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