Preternatural vs Transcendental - What's the difference?
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Beyond or different from what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; abnormal.
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(dated) Having an existence outside of the natural world.
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(philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
Superior, surpassing all others.
Extraordinary.
Mystical or supernatural.
(mathematics, number theory) Of, or relating to a number that is not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients.
As adjectives the difference between preternatural and transcendental
is that preternatural is beyond or different from what is natural or according to the regular course of things; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; abnormal while transcendental is (philosophy) concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.As a noun transcendental is
(obsolete) a transcendentalist.preternatural
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(wikipedia preternatural)Alternative forms
* praeternatural * (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)p. 152,
- Doubtless there has been some exaggeration in the picturesque and fanciful relations of the almost preternatural skill and cunning of the Indian, [...]
- Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event.
- Not Leonore, in that preternatural midnight excursion with her phantom lover, was more terrified than poor Maggie in this entirely natural ride on a short-paced donkey, [...]
- Vansittart Smith, fixing his eyes upon the fellow's skin, was conscious of a sudden impression that there was something inhuman and preternatural about its appearance.