transcendental

adjective

Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge as independent of experience.

adjective

Asserting a fundamental irrationality or supernatural element in experience.

adjective

Surpassing all others; superior.

adjective

Beyond common thought or experience; mystical or supernatural.

adjective

Of or relating to a real or complex number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.

Same as transcendent, 1.

In philosophy: In Aristotelian philosophy, extending beyond the bounds of a single category.

In Cartesian philosophy, predicable both of body and of spirit.

Pertaining to the existence in experience of a priori elements; a priori. This is chiefly a Kantian term, but was also used by Dugald Stewart. See Kantianism, category, a priori.