Transcendent
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: surpassing usual limits being beyond the range of normal perception free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity
Example sentence: Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.
Surpassing
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.