1.
[syn: mysticism, religious mysticism]
2. obscure or irrational thought;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mysticism
n 1: a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate
reality [syn: mysticism, religious mysticism]
2: obscure or irrational thought
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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