transcendence
tran sen duhns
- n a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
- n the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- Almost certainly he was seen in his moment of self-transcendence by more people than ever laid eyes on Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and James Joyce combined.
- In some sense, he was an aristocrat for whom slumming was transcendence.
- First he ranked the participants along Cloninger's self-transcendence scale, placing them on a continuum from least to most spiritually inclined.