mysticism
(noun) obscure or irrational thought
mysticism, religious mysticism
(noun) a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mysticism (countable and uncountable, plural mysticisms)
The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
Obscure thoughts and speculations.
• rationalism
Source: Wiktionary
Mys"ti*cism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. mysticisme.]
1. Obscurity of doctrine.
2. (Eccl. Hist.)
Definition: The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
3. (Philos.)
Definition: The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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