means The state of rising above or going beyond ordinary limits — physical, mental, or spiritual.

from From Latin transcendere, 'to climb over or beyond,' built from trans- ('across, beyond') and scandere ('to climb' — the same root that gives us 'ascend' and 'descend'). So at its heart the word is literally a climb: you step over the edge of what bounded you. It entered English through the medieval scholars who used it to describe things that exceeded the categories of ordinary understanding, and later the philosophers — Kant above all — who made it the name for whatever lies past the reach of experience.