Transcendentalist

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An adherent of some form of: transcendentalism; especially, an American follower of Sehelling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who believes in transcendentalism.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who believes in transcendentalism.
  • noun. 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.
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  • noun. advocate of transcendentalism
  • Word Usage
    "This middle zone of power and mastery is the path of the modern transcendentalist, and the one who walks it and lives in unification with its laws is the _modern transcendentalist_ of the new civilization."