Mysticism
['mɪstɪsɪz(ə)m] or ['mɪstɪsɪzəm]
Definition
(noun.) obscure or irrational thought.
(noun.) a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality.
Editor: Pierre--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Obscurity of doctrine.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
Inputed by Jarvis
Examples
- There is a vein of mysticism in American life, and Mr. Bryan is its uncritical prophet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That is a beautiful mysticism--it is a-- Please not to call it by any name, said Dorothea, putting out her hands entreatingly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Beneath the rule of this dirty mysticism, indolence and scoundrelism mismanaged the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In every way except the mysticism. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Edited by Claudette