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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
transcendentalism is a noun meaning "any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material". It carries one recorded sense.
any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transcendentalism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.