[{"word":"transcendentalism","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transcendentalism"]}]