mysticism

Noun
Synonyms: religious mysticism

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate realitySynonyms: religious mysticism
  2. obscure or irrational thought
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Mysticism \Mys"ti*cism\, n. [Cf. F. mysticisme.]

1.Obscurity of doctrine. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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