As nouns the difference between naturist and transcendentalism
is that
naturist is one who prefers to live without clothes, often for reasons of health while
transcendentalism is the transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
naturist English
Noun
( en noun)
One who prefers to live without clothes, often for reasons of health.
One who believes in the doctrine of naturism, which attributes everything to nature.
- (Boyle)
Synonyms
* nudist
Related terms
* naturism
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transcendentalism English
Noun
The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
Related terms
* philosophy
* religion
* transcendental
* transcendentalist
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