Mysticism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mysticism \Mys"ti*cism\, n. [Cf. F. mysticisme.]
     1. Obscurity of doctrine.
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     2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
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     3. (Philos.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or
        principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or
        process akin to feeling or faith.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mysticism
       n 1: a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate
            reality [syn: {religious mysticism}]
       2: obscure or irrational thought

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "mysticism":
     afflatus, anagoge, anagogics, anthroposophy, apocalypse, cabala,
     cabalism, direct communication, divine inspiration,
     divine revelation, epiphany, esotericism, esoterics, esoterism,
     esotery, hocus-pocus, inspiration, mumbo jumbo, mystery,
     mystical experience, mystification, occultism, prophecy,
     revelation, symbolics, symbolism, theophania, theophany,
     theopneustia, theopneusty, yoga, yogeeism, yogism