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mysticisms

mysticisms is the plural of mysticism.

Meaning of mysticism

Noun

mysticism (countable and uncountable, plural mysticisms)

  1. The beliefs, ideas, or thoughts of mystics.
  2. A doctrine of direct communication or spiritual intuition of divine truth.
    • In the history of Christian mysticism the problem how to discriminate between such messages and experiences as were really divine miracles, and such others as the demon in his malice was able to counterfeit, thus making the religious person twofold more the child of hell he was before, has always...1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC
  3. A transcendental union of soul or mind with the divine reality or divinity.
  4. Obscure thoughts and speculations.

Questions about mysticisms

What is mysticisms the plural of?
Mysticisms is the plural of mysticism.

Words near mysticisms in the dictionary

  1. mysticise
  2. mysticised
  3. mysticises
  4. mysticising
  5. mysticism
  6. mysticisms
  7. mysticist
  8. mysticists
  9. mysticity
  10. mysticize
  11. mysticized

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