1. A literary and philosophical movement, associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret fuller, asserting the existence of an ideal spiritual reality that transcends the empirical and scientific and is knowable through intuition.
2. the quality or state of being transcendental.

1. the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
4. A movement of writers and philosophers in new england in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

1. the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

1. the character of being transcendental. specifically
2. in philosophy, in general, the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought.

1. any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material