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transcendentalism

noun

transcendentalism is spelled T-R-A-N-S-C-E-N-D-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-M: 17 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, transcendentalism means “The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of transcendentalism is transcendentalisms.

How many letters and syllables are in transcendentalism?

Letters17: T-R-A-N-S-C-E-N-D-E-N-T-A-L-I-S-M
In writingabout once in every 12 million words; the 103,949th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is transcendentalism?

Transcendentalism appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce transcendentalism?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-transcendentalism.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of transcendentalism

  • transcendentalisms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does transcendentalism mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

  2. 2

    Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.

  3. 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. 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.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Transcendentalism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtranscendentalisme (the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism…)
GermanTranszendentalismus (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key…)
Portuguesetranscendentalismo (a philosophy which holds that reasoning is key…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does transcendentalism come from?

From transcendental + -ism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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