'Mysticism' definitions:
Definition of 'mysticism'
From: WordNet
noun
A religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality [syn: mysticism, religious mysticism]
noun
Obscure or irrational thought
Definition of 'Mysticism'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'mysticism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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