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Transcend vs Metaphysical - What's the difference?

transcend | metaphysical |

As a verb transcend

is to pass beyond the limits of something.

As an adjective metaphysical is

of or pertaining to metaphysics.

transcend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to pass beyond the limits of something.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • such popes as shall transcend their limits
  • to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
  • * Dryden
  • How much her worth transcended all her kind.
  • (obsolete) To climb; to mount.
  • lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
    (Howell)

    Derived terms

    * transcendence * transcendency * transcendent * transcendental * transcendentalism * transcendentalist * transcendentally * transcending

    metaphysical

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
  • Immaterial, supersensual, not physical (more properly, "beyond" that which is physical).
  • Derived terms

    * metaphysically

    See also

    * transcendental