transcendence
noun
tran·scen·dence
tran(t)-ˈsen-dən(t)s 
: the quality or state of being transcendent
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makes a case for the transcendence of Louis Armstrong's contributions to the field of jazz
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And yet, even when the Beatles retreated to an ashram in the late ’60s seeking transcendence, most Americans still saw yoga as something for hippies and Eastern mystics.
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Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Those rare stadium shows that achieve transcendence do it through the crowd.
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What had been a band already approaching greatness almost immediately became a band that regularly achieved creative transcendence.
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Danielle Friedman, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
Those rare stadium shows that achieve transcendence do it through the crowd.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 15 Sep. 2024
What had been a band already approaching greatness almost immediately became a band that regularly achieved creative transcendence.
—George Varga, The Mercury News, 16 Dec. 2024
But if true art is an instrument for transcendence and cognitive freedom, then artifice—art’s look-alike—is a homogenizing force that blocks off possibilities and alternate modes of being.
—Donna Tartt, Harper's Magazine, 2 July 2024
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“Transcendence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transcendence. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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transcendence
noun
tran·scen·dence
tran(t)s-ˈen-dən(t)s
: the quality or state of being transcendent
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