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MYSTICISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Obscure or irrational thought
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mysticism" is a kind of...):
cerebration; intellection; mentation; thinking; thought; thought process (the process of using your mind to consider something carefully)
Derivation:
mystic (relating to or resembling mysticism)
mystical (relating to or characteristic of mysticism)
mystical (relating to or resembling mysticism)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
Synonyms:
mysticism; religious mysticism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("mysticism" is a kind of...):
faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mysticism"):
quietism (a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God)
Sufism (Islamic mysticism)
Derivation:
mystic; mystical (relating to or characteristic of mysticism)
mystical (relating to or resembling mysticism)
