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Transcendent vs Resplendent - What's the difference?

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Transcendent is a related term of resplendent.


As adjectives the difference between transcendent and resplendent

is that transcendent is surpassing usual limits while resplendent is shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.

As a noun transcendent

is that which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.

transcendent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • surpassing usual limits
  • beyond the range of usual perception
  • free from constraints of the material world

    • Related terms

    * transcendence * transcendency * transcendental * transcendently

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which surpasses or is supereminent; something excellent.
    • ----

    resplendent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shiny and colourful, and thus pleasing to the eye.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
  • (label) Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.

    • Related terms

    * resplend * splendid * splendor

    See also

    * resplendid (misspelling) ----