antitranscendentalism

noun

A position that opposes transcendentalism.

Scrabble 26
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounantitranscendentalism (uncountable)

alternative anti-transcendentalism

  1. uncountablehuman sciencesA position that opposes transcendentalism.

    The positivist is driven to either "pure facts" or "pure formulas" by his antitranscendentalism of the dogmatic variety.

    1990, Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya, Anthropology and Historiography of Science, page 120
    1 more example

    One hitch here is that this deflationary attitude and extreme anti-transcendentalism might appear to paint Quine's naturalism into a corner.

    2019, Robert Sinclair, Science and Sensibilia by W. V. Quine: The 1980 Immanuel Kant Lectures

Origin

From anti- + transcendentalism.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Greek ανθυπερβατισμός
  • ανθυπερβατισμός (anthypervatismós)opposition to transcendentalism
Cite this entry
APA

antitranscendentalism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antitranscendentalism

MLA

“antitranscendentalism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antitranscendentalism. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antitranscendentalism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antitranscendentalism.

Source: antitranscendentalism on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.