Transcendentalist

Origin

transcendental + -ist

Full definition of transcendentalist

Noun

1. One who believes in transcendentalism.
2. 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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