'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'

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