Transcendental vs Corporeal - What's the difference?
transcendental | corporeal |
(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.
Material; tangible; physical.
Of or pertaining to the body; bodily.
* {{quote-book
, year=2000
, author=Margaret Atwood
, title=The Blind Assassin
, passage=She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.}}
(archaic) Corporal.
As adjectives the difference between transcendental and corporeal
is that transcendental is (philosophy) concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience while corporeal is material; tangible; physical.As a noun transcendental
is (obsolete) a transcendentalist.transcendental
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* (mathematics) algebraicHypernyms
* (mathematics) irrationalDerived terms
* transcendental ego * transcendental function * transcendentalize * transcendental meditation * transcendental number * transcendentalismcorporeal
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(en adjective)- His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. - Milton