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Noun: transcendence  tran'sen-dun(t)s
  1. The state of excelling, surpassing or going beyond usual limits
    "Her musical talent showed a rare transcendence";
    - transcendency, superiority
     
  2. A state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
    "The mystic claimed to have achieved transcendence through meditation";
    - transcendency

Derived forms: transcendences

Type of: being, beingness, domination, existence, face of the earth, mastery, supremacy

Encyclopedia: Transcendence