ALL meanings of transcendentalist
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T t - noun transcendentalist transcendental character, thought, or language. 1
- noun transcendentalist Also called transcendental philosophy. any philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical: in the U.S., associated with Emerson. 1