noun

• Existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level.

  ‘the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the modern world’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They are the inability to distinguish between transcendence in fact and transcendence in illusion.’
  • ‘In science fiction there can be no inexplicable marvels, no transcendences, no devils or demons.’
  • ‘Enough to raise themselves to the same level of transcendence.’
  • ‘Fundamentalists, on the other hand, have emphasized the transcendence of God.’
  • ‘And now that we know all about them, there still remains the mystery of his transcendence.’

  Synonyms

  superiority, supremacy, predominance, pre-eminence, ascendancy

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