transcendentalist

transcendental +‎ -ist

transcendentalist (plural transcendentalists)

1. One who believes in transcendentalism.
   • 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience […] ‎, London: Longmans, Green & Co.:

     “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!”

2. Any of 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.

• transcendentalism

Borrowed from French transcendantaliste.

transcendentalist m (plural transcendentaliști)

1. transcendentalist