transcendental

English

WOTD – 14 March 2026

The number $\pi$ is transcendental (adjective sense 3.2)—written as a decimal, the numbers after the decimal point continue infinitely and do not enter a permanently repeating pattern.

Etymology

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin transcendentālis + English -al (suffix meaning of or relating to forming adjectives; and forming nouns, especially of verbal action). Transcendentālis is derived from Latin trānscendentem + ‑ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship); and trānscendentem is the accusative singular form of trānscendēns (“exceeding, surpassing, transcending”), the present active participle of trānscendō (“to climb, cross, pass, or step over; to exceed, surpass, transcend”), from trāns- (prefix meaning ‘across; beyond; through’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- (“to cross over; to overcome; to pass through”)) + scandō (“to ascend, climb; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to ascend; to jump up”)).

The noun is derived from the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹæn(t)s(ɛ)nˈdɛntl̩/, /ˌtɹɑːn-/, [-zɛn-]

• Audio (Southern England); /ˌtɹɑːnsɛnˈdɛntl̩/:

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹænˌ(t)sɛnˈdɛntl̩/, /-(t)s(ə)n-/, [-ɾl̩]
• Rhymes: -ɛntəl
• Hyphenation: trans‧en‧dent‧al

Adjective

transcendental (comparative more transcendental, superlative most transcendental)

1. Synonym of transcendent (“surpassing usual limits; excelling; extraordinary”).

   Synonym: surpassing

   • 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of Celestial Mind”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 2nd book, paragraph 33, page 84:

     [T]he Deity himſelf, tho' he perceiveth neither Pleaſure, nor Pain, nor any thing elſe, as vve do: yet muſt needs have a Perfect and Tranſcendental Perception, both of Pleaſure, and Pain, and of all other things.

   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 10:

     All theſe conſiderations hovvever vvere belovv the tranſcendental dignity of the Revolution Society.

2. (philosophy)
   1. In the philosophy of Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.): synonym of transcendent (“transcending or extending beyond a single category”); also, synonym of metaphysical (“of or relating to the basic structure of reality”).
      • 1668, John Wilkins, chapter VI, in An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, London: […] Sa[muel] Gellibrand, and for John Martyn printer to the Royal Society, →OCLC, 3rd part (Concerning Natural Grammar), page 318:

        Thoſe Particles are here ſtiled Tranſcendental, vvhich do circumſtantiate vvords in reſpect of ſome Metaphyſical notion; either by enlarging the acception of them to ſome more general ſignification, then doth belong to the reſtrained ſenſe of their places: or denoting a relation to ſome other Predicament or Genus, under vvhich they are not originally placed.

        The word is used in an idiosyncratic manner.

      • 1676, Joseph Glanvill, “Essay I. Against Confidence in Philosophy, and Matters of Speculation.”, in Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, London: […] J[ohn] D[arby] for John Baker, […], and Henry Mortlock, […], →OCLC, page 3:

        To be impenetrable, diſcerpible, and unactive, is the nature of all Body and Matter, as ſuch: And the properties of a Spirit are the direct contrary, to be penetrable, indiſcerpible, and ſelf-motive: Yea, ſo different they are in all things, that they ſeem to have nothing but Being, and the Tranſcendental Attributes of that, in common: […]

      • 1683, Henry More, “Annotations upon the Two Foregoing Treatises, […]. Annotations upon The Discourse of Truth [by George Rust]. […].”, in Two Choice and Useful Treatises: The One Lux Orientalis; or An Enquiry into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Præexistence of Souls. […] The Other, A Discourse of Truth, […], London: […] James Collins and Sam[uel] Lowndes […], →OCLC, page 177:

        The Divine Underſtanding cannot be the fountain of the Truth of things, &c. This ſeems at firſt ſight to be a very harſh Paradox, and againſt the current Doctrine of Metaphyſicians, vvho define Tranſcendental or Metaphyſical Truth to be nothing elſe but the relation of the Conformity of things to the Theoretical (not Practical) Intellect of God; […] And hence they make Tranſcendental Truth to depend on the Intellectual Truth of God, vvhich alone is moſt properly Truth, and indeed the fountain and origine of all Truth.

      • 1710, George Berkeley, “Of the Principles of Human Knowledge”, in A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. […], Dublin: […] Aaron Rhames, for Jeremy [i.e., Jeremiah] Pepyat, […], →OCLC, § 118, page 169:

        [T]hey do not aſcend into any Inquiry concerning thoſe Tranſcendental Maxims, vvhich influence all the particular Sciences, each Part vvhereof, Mathematics not excepted, does conſequently participate of the Errors involved in them.

      • 1751 June 29 (Gregorian calendar), Samuel Johnson, “No. 131. Tuesday, June 18. 1751.”, in The Rambler, volume V, Edinburgh: […] Sands, Murray, and Cochran; sold by W. Gordon, C. Wright, J. Yair, […], published 1751, →OCLC, page 203:

        [T]he vviſh for riches; a vviſh indeed prevalent, that it may be conſidered as univerſal and tranſcendental, as the deſire in vvhich all other desires are included, […]

   2. In the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) or similar philosophies: concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
      • 1827, Thomas Carlyle, “State of German Literature”, in R[alph] W[aldo] E[merson], editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, published 1838, →OCLC, page 80:

        The chief mystics in Germany, it would appear, are the Transcendental Philosophers, [Immanuel] Kant, [Johann Gottlieb] Fichte, and [Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph] Schelling!

      • 1985, J[itendra] N[ath] Mohanty, “Introductory Essay: On the Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy”, in J. N. Mohanty, editor, The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy (Phaenomenologica; 98), Dordrecht, South Holland: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page xiii:

        The best way to demonstrate the possibility of something is to show its actuality, for actuality implies possibility. At least since [Immanuel] Kant, transcendental philosophies have been on the scene. However, such simple demonstration of the possibility of transcendental philosophy has not been effective and is not likely to be so – so strong is the presumption that transcendental philosophy just could not be possible, or, if it was possible earlier, it is not possible now.

      • 1999, Robert Stern, “On [Immanuel] Kant’s Response to [David] Hume: The Second Analogy as Transcendental Argument”, in Robert Stern, editor, Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects, paperback edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 47:

        Whilst it was once held that transcendental arguments could provide a direct and straightforward refutation of scepticism, this view now seems over-optimistic. It has proved remarkably difficult to formulate a transcendental argument convincingly, that puts us in a position to make some sort of knowledge-claim regarding how things are, and so see off the spectre of widespread error in our view of reality.

      • 2007, Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, “Introduction: Transcendental Heidegger”, in Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, editors, Transcendental Heidegger, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 1:

        Not only does [Martin] Heidegger's early work stand within the framework of transcendental phenomenology as established by [Edmund] Husserl—even though it also contests and revises that framework—but that thinking also stands in a close relationship to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and specifically to the transcendental project, and modes of argument, of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

   3. In the philosophy associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882): of or relating to transcendentalism (“a philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality”).
      • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “In which the Travellers Move Homeward, and Encounter Some Distinguished Characters upon the Way”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, pages 406–407:

        Two literary ladies present their compliments to the mother of the modern Gracchi, and claim her kind introduction, as their talented countrywoman, to the honourable (and distinguished) Elijah Pogram, […] It may be another bond of union between the two L.L.'s [literary ladies] and the mother of the M.G. [modern Gracchi] to observe, that the two L.L.'s are Transcendental.

   4. (by extension)
      1. Beyond one's ordinary experience; extraordinary.
         • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Romance”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 98:

           [S]ometimes it is even when your anxiety becomes transcendental, that the soul feels herself able to transcend it; that she rises above it, in fiery victory; and borne on new-found wings of victory, moves so calmly, even because so rapidly, so irresistibly.

         • 1856, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Voyage to England”, in English Traits, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC, page 234:

           This mental materialism makes the value of English transcendental genius; […]

         • 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens”, in Romola. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book II, page 222:

           That bust of Plato had been long used to look down on conviviality of a more transcendental sort, for it had been brought from Lorenzo's villa after his death, when the meetings of the Platonic Academy had been transferred to these gardens.

         • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 104:

           And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided your superiors—behold!

      2. Existing in the imagination; abstract, conceptual.
         • 1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Madame [George] Sand and the New Apocalypse”, in The Paris Sketch Book, volume II, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, page 103:

           [T]hese sprightly Frenchmen have relished the mystical doctrines mightily; and having watched the Germans, with their sanctified looks, and quaint imitations of the old times, and mysterious transcendental talk, are aping many of their fashions, as well and solemnly as they can; […]

         • 1850, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Plato; or, The Philosopher”, in Representative Men: Seven Lectures, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […], →OCLC, page 58:

           If he made transcendental distinctions, he fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers; from mares and puppies; from pitchers and soup-ladles; from cooks and criers; the shops of potters, horse-doctors, butchers, and fishmongers.

         • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Bonn; Herstmonceux”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 126:

           To such length can transcendental moonshine, cast by some morbidly radiating [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge into the chaos of a fermenting life, act magically there, and produce divulsions and convulsions and diseased developments.

      3. Mystical, superhuman, supernatural.

         Synonym: superrational

         • 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, pages 52–53:

           Everard pursued his investigation; for he was struck with the manner in which Harrison evaded his questions, and the dexterity with which he threw his transcendental and fanatical notions, like a sort of veil, over the darker visions excited by remorse and conscious guilt.

         • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 107–108:

           And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental, rëacted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.

3. (mathematics)

   Antonym: algebraic

   Hypernym: irrational

   1. (algebra, field theory) Of an element of an extension field: not algebraic, that is, not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients; also, of an extension field: that contains elements which are not algebraic.
      • 2006, Steven Roman, “Algebraic Independence”, in Field Theory (Graduate Texts in Mathematics; 158), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, part I (Field Extensions), page 108:

        Suppose that $F<E$ is purely transcendental. Show that any simple extension of $F$ contained in $E$ (but not equal to $F$) is transcendental over $F$.

   3. (number theory) Of a function or number: not algebraic.

      The numbers $e$ and $\pi$ are transcendental—written as decimals, the numbers after the decimal point continue infinitely and do not enter a permanently repeating pattern.

      • 1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Transcendental Curves”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 6th edition, London: […] J. Phillips, […]; N. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC, signature [Lllll3], recto, column 2:

        Tranſcendental Curves, (in Mathem[atics]) are ſuch Curves, as vvhen their Nature or Property comes to be expreſs'd by an Equation, one of the variable or flovving Quantities there, denotes a Curve or crooked Line; and vvhen ſuch Curve Line is a Geometrick one, or one of the firſt Degree or Kind, then the Tranſcendental Curve is ſaid To be of the Second Degree or Kind, &c.

      • 1975, Alan Baker, “The Origins”, in Transcendental Number Theory, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1:

        The theory of transcendental numbers was originated by [Joseph] Liouville in his famous memoir of 1844 in which he obtained, for the first time, a class, très-étendue, as it was described in the title of the paper, of numbers that satisfy no algebraic equation with integer coefficients.

      • 2005, J[uan] G[ualterio] Roederer, “Elements of Classical Information Theory”, in Information and Its Role in Nature (The Frontiers Collection), Berlin; Heidelberg, Baden-Württemburg: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 28:

        If the distribution of decimal digits of $\pi$ (or any other transcendental number) is truly random (suspected but not yet mathematically proven!), given any arbitrary finite sequence of whole numbers, that sequence would be included an infinite number of times in the decimal expansion of $\pi$. This means that if we were to encode [William] Shakespeare's works, the Bible, this very book, or the entire written description of the Universe in some numerical code, we would find the corresponding (long but still finite) string included in $\pi$! The problem, of course, would be to find out where it is hiding (there is no rule for that)!

Derived terms

• nontranscendental
• purely transcendental
• semitranscendental
• supertranscendental
• transcendental critique
• transcendental ego
• transcendental function
• transcendental idealism
• transcendentalise
• transcendentalise, transcendentalize
• transcendentalism
• transcendentality
• transcendentally
• transcendental materialism
• transcendental meditation
• transcendentalness
• transcendental number
• transcendental number theory
• transcendental realism
• transseries
• untranscendental

Related terms

• transcend
• transcendence
• transcendency
• transcendent
• transcendently

Translations

synonym of transcendent — see transcendent

synonym of metaphysical — see metaphysical

concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience

• Bulgarian: интуитивен (bg) (intuitiven)
• Finnish: transsendentaalinen
• Greek: υπερβατικός (el) m (ypervatikós)
• Hindi: अनुभवातीत (anubhvātīt), इंद्रियातीत (hi) (indriyātīt), लोकातीत (lokātīt), प्रागनुभविक (prāgnubhvik), अत्यानुभविक (atyānubhvik), भावातीत (bhāvātīt), अतींद्रिय (hi) (atīndriya), लोकोत्तर (hi) (lokottar)
• Italian: trascendentale (it)
• Kazakh: трансценденттік (transcendenttik), трансценденталды (transcendentaldı)
• Persian: متعالی (fa) (mota'âli)
• Romanian: transcendental (ro)
• Spanish: trascendental (es)
• Swedish: transcendent (sv)
• Tagalog: igpawin
• Turkish: deneyüstü (tr)
• Welsh: trosgynnol

beyond one’s ordinary experience — see extraordinary

existing in the imagination — see abstract,‎ conceptual

mystical, superhuman, supernatural — see also supernatural

• Bulgarian: свръхестествен (bg) (svrăhestestven)
• Finnish: tuonpuoleinen (fi)
• German: transzendent (de)
• Greek: υπερβατικός (el) m (ypervatikós), υπερφυσικός (el) m (yperfysikós)
• Hindi: अलौकिक (hi) (alaukik)
• Irish: tarchéimnitheach
• Kazakh: трансценденталды (transcendentaldı)
• Romanian: transcendent (ro)
• Spanish: trascendental (es)
• Tagalog: igpawin

not algebraic

• Arabic: متسام
• Armenian: տրանսցենդենտ (hy) (transcʻendent)
• Azerbaijani: transsendent
• Basque: transzendente
• Belarusian: трансцэндэнтны (transcendentny)
• Bengali: তুরীয় (bn) (turiẏo)
• Bulgarian: трансцендентно (transcendentno)
• Catalan: transcendent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超越 (zh) (chāoyuè)

• Chuvash: трансцендентлӑ (transtsendentlă)
• Czech: transcendentní
• Danish: transcendent
• Dutch: transcendent (nl)
• Estonian: transtsendentne
• Finnish: transsendenttinen (fi)
• French: transcendante (fr)
• Galician: transcendente
• Georgian: ტრანსცენდენტური (ṭranscendenṭuri)
• German: transzendent (de)
• Greek: υπερβατικός (el) m (ypervatikós)
• Hebrew: טרנסצנדנטי (he)
• Hindi: अबीजीय (abījīya), प्रागनुभविक (prāgnubhvik)
• Hungarian: transzcendens (hu)
• Icelandic: torræður m
• Ido: trancendanta (io)
• Indonesian: transendental (id)
• Irish: tarchéimniúil
• Italian: trascendente (it)
• Japanese: 超越 (ja) (ちょうえつ, chōetsu)
• Kazakh: трансценденттік (transcendenttik)
• Korean: 초월(超越) (ko) (chowol)
• Latin: transcendens, transcendentalis
• Latvian: transcendents
• Lithuanian: transcendentinis
• Lombard: trascendeent
• Malagasy: mihoadraha
• Malay: transenden
• Mirandese: trascendente
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: transcendentalt

  Nynorsk: transcendent

• Persian: ترافرازنده (fa)
• Polish: przestępny (pl) m
• Portuguese: transcendente (pt)
• Romanian: transcendent (ro)
• Russian: трансценде́нтное (ru) (transcendéntnoje)
• Sicilian: trascinnenti
• Slovak: transcendentné
• Slovene: transcendentno
• Spanish: trascendental (es)
• Swedish: transcendental
• Tagalog: igpawin
• Tajik: транccендентӣ (tranccyendentī)
• Tamil: விஞ்சிய (viñciya)
• Thai: อดิศัย (th)
• Turkish: aşkın (tr)
• Ukrainian: трансценде́нтні (transcendéntni)
• Vietnamese: siêu việt (vi) (超越)
• Welsh: trosgynnol
• West Flemish: transcendent

Noun

transcendental (plural transcendentals)

1. A thing which is transcendental (all adjective senses).
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Love of His Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 276–277:

     The Learning of this People is very defective, conſiſting only in Morality, Hiſtory, Poetry, and Mathematicks, vvherein they muſt be allovved to excel. […] And as to Ideas, Entities, Abſtraction and Tranſcendentals, I could never drive the leaſt Conception into their Heads.

   • 2007, Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, “Introduction: Transcendental Heidegger”, in Steven Crowell, Jeff Malpas, editors, Transcendental Heidegger, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 1:

     The transcendental is a key notion in [Martin] Heidegger's thought. […] [This collection of essays] makes a case for the continuing significance of the transcendental in philosophy more broadly.

   1. (Christian theology, metaphysics, philosophy (specifically Platonism), chiefly in the plural) Any one of the transcendental properties of being, especially beauty, goodness, and truth—which are respectively the ideals of art, religion, and science, and thus the principal subjects of the study of aesthetics, ethics, and logic.
      • 2002, Robert C[ummings] Neville, “The Symbols of Divine Action”, in Religion in Late Modernity, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 72:

        In another sense, God is the creator of a world that might have some transcendental properties common to all things, for instance as expressed in the theory of determinateness. […] In deference to Christian usage we can say that the transcendentals constitute the Logos within which everything has its being and according to which everything is made.

      • 2012, Jan A[drianus] Aertsen, “The Doctrine of the Transcendentals in Nominalism”, in Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought: From Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) to Francisco Suárez, Leiden, South Holland; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 515:

        The medieval doctrine of the transcendentals is closely connected with a metaphysical conception of reality, but is there a science of being in William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1347)?

      • 2012, Jean Grondin, “Metaphysics and Theology in the Middle Ages”, in Lukas Soderstrom, transl., Introduction to Metaphysics: From Parmenides to Levinas (Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters [Studies and Texts on the Intellectual History of the Middle Ages]; 107), New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 105:

        These predicates of Being are what the Medievals called, using a term that will have a fertile future, "transcendentals" (often called the "universals") because they transcend all particular genera, following the example of Being. A quarrel over these transcendentals even shook the later Middle Ages. The quarrel stemmed from the question of whether the existence of these transcendentals was real or intellectual (also called nominal).

      • 2015, Anthony Howard, “In Search of Beauty, Goodness and Truth”, in Humanise: Why Human-centred Leadership is the Key to the 21st Century, Milton, Qld.: John Wiley & Sons Australia, →ISBN, part II (Foundations for Human-centred Leaders), page 70:

        Another fascinating thing about the transcendentals is that each is fully contained in the others. When you appreciate beauty, for example, you recognise the presence of goodness and truth. When you grasp the truth about something you experience a moment of beauty in, perhaps, the simplicity or power of the insight. When you observe goodness in the actions of another person you are seeing truth and beauty in operation.

   2. (mathematics) An element of an extension field, an extension field, a function, or a number which is not algebraic.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of transcendentalist (“one who believes in transcendentalism; a philosopher who asserts that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience”).

Translations

thing which is transcendental

• Finnish: transsendentti
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any one of the transcendental properties of being

• Finnish: transsendentti
• French: please add this translation if you can

element of an extension field or an extension field which is not algebraic

• Finnish: transsendentti
• French: please add this translation if you can

transcendental function — see transcendental function

transcendental number — see transcendental number

Further reading

• transcendence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(philosophy): Critique of Pure Reason on Wikipedia.Wikipedia epistemology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia metaphysics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia transcendentals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(mathematics): field extension on Wikipedia.Wikipedia field (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Liouville number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia transcendental number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia L. V. Kuz’min [et al.] (31 December 2015), “Transcendental extension”, in Encyclopedia of Mathematics‎[1], archived from the original on 26 January 2020. Margherita Barile (14 February 2026), “Transcendental Extension”, in Wolfram MathWorld‎[2], archived from the original on 17 February 2026.

German

Adjective

transcendental (strong nominative masculine singular transcendentaler, comparative transcendentaler, superlative am transcendentalsten)

1. obsolete spelling of transzendental

Declension

Positive forms of transcendental

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist transcendental	sie ist transcendental	es ist transcendental	sie sind transcendental
strong declension (without article)	nominative	transcendentaler	transcendentale	transcendentales	transcendentale
	genitive	transcendentalen	transcendentaler	transcendentalen	transcendentaler
	dative	transcendentalem	transcendentaler	transcendentalem	transcendentalen
	accusative	transcendentalen	transcendentale	transcendentales	transcendentale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der transcendentale	die transcendentale	das transcendentale	die transcendentalen
	genitive	des transcendentalen	der transcendentalen	des transcendentalen	der transcendentalen
	dative	dem transcendentalen	der transcendentalen	dem transcendentalen	den transcendentalen
	accusative	den transcendentalen	die transcendentale	das transcendentale	die transcendentalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein transcendentaler	eine transcendentale	ein transcendentales	(keine) transcendentalen
	genitive	eines transcendentalen	einer transcendentalen	eines transcendentalen	(keiner) transcendentalen
	dative	einem transcendentalen	einer transcendentalen	einem transcendentalen	(keinen) transcendentalen
	accusative	einen transcendentalen	eine transcendentale	ein transcendentales	(keine) transcendentalen

Comparative forms of transcendental

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist transcendentaler	sie ist transcendentaler	es ist transcendentaler	sie sind transcendentaler
strong declension (without article)	nominative	transcendentalerer	transcendentalere	transcendentaleres	transcendentalere
	genitive	transcendentaleren	transcendentalerer	transcendentaleren	transcendentalerer
	dative	transcendentalerem	transcendentalerer	transcendentalerem	transcendentaleren
	accusative	transcendentaleren	transcendentalere	transcendentaleres	transcendentalere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der transcendentalere	die transcendentalere	das transcendentalere	die transcendentaleren
	genitive	des transcendentaleren	der transcendentaleren	des transcendentaleren	der transcendentaleren
	dative	dem transcendentaleren	der transcendentaleren	dem transcendentaleren	den transcendentaleren
	accusative	den transcendentaleren	die transcendentalere	das transcendentalere	die transcendentaleren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein transcendentalerer	eine transcendentalere	ein transcendentaleres	(keine) transcendentaleren
	genitive	eines transcendentaleren	einer transcendentaleren	eines transcendentaleren	(keiner) transcendentaleren
	dative	einem transcendentaleren	einer transcendentaleren	einem transcendentaleren	(keinen) transcendentaleren
	accusative	einen transcendentaleren	eine transcendentalere	ein transcendentaleres	(keine) transcendentaleren

Superlative forms of transcendental

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am transcendentalsten	sie ist am transcendentalsten	es ist am transcendentalsten	sie sind am transcendentalsten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	transcendentalster	transcendentalste	transcendentalstes	transcendentalste
	genitive	transcendentalsten	transcendentalster	transcendentalsten	transcendentalster
	dative	transcendentalstem	transcendentalster	transcendentalstem	transcendentalsten
	accusative	transcendentalsten	transcendentalste	transcendentalstes	transcendentalste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der transcendentalste	die transcendentalste	das transcendentalste	die transcendentalsten
	genitive	des transcendentalsten	der transcendentalsten	des transcendentalsten	der transcendentalsten
	dative	dem transcendentalsten	der transcendentalsten	dem transcendentalsten	den transcendentalsten
	accusative	den transcendentalsten	die transcendentalste	das transcendentalste	die transcendentalsten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein transcendentalster	eine transcendentalste	ein transcendentalstes	(keine) transcendentalsten
	genitive	eines transcendentalsten	einer transcendentalsten	eines transcendentalsten	(keiner) transcendentalsten
	dative	einem transcendentalsten	einer transcendentalsten	einem transcendentalsten	(keinen) transcendentalsten
	accusative	einen transcendentalsten	eine transcendentalste	ein transcendentalstes	(keine) transcendentalsten

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French transcendantal, from Latin transcendentalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtrans.t͡ʃe.denˈtal/

Adjective

transcendental m or n (feminine singular transcendentală, masculine plural transcendentali, feminine/neuter plural transcendentale)

1. transcendental

Declension

Declension of transcendental

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	transcendental		transcendentală	transcendentali	transcendentale
	definite	transcendentalul		transcendentala	transcendentalii	transcendentalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	transcendental		transcendentale	transcendentali	transcendentale
	definite	transcendentalului		transcendentalei	transcendentalilor	transcendentalelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾansθendenˈtal/ [t̪ɾãns.θẽn̪.d̪ẽn̪ˈt̪al] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /tɾansendenˈtal/ [t̪ɾãn.sẽn̪.d̪ẽn̪ˈt̪al] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: trans‧cen‧den‧tal

Adjective

transcendental m or f (masculine and feminine plural transcendentales)

1. transcendental

Further reading

• “transcendental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025