mysticity
mysticity noun: the quality of being mystic or mystical.
Noun
mysticity (uncountable)
- The quality of being mystic or mystical.
- The Count de Sinzendorf has ſhewn all Europe, that in the moſt enlightened age, perſeverance ſupported by enthuſiaſm and devotion, could recall that zeal, that Miſticity, thoſe extraordinary follies, which one would think proper only for the barbarous and dark ages.1753, [dedication signed by Goma de Palajos], Reflections of *****: Being a Series of Political Maxims, Illustrated by General History, as Well as by Variety of Authentic Anecdotes (Never Published...
- I will endeavour to “make note” of their tenets, though many of them escaped me through their mysticity.1834, Thomas Medwin, The Angler in Wales, or Days and Nights of Sportsmen, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 1
- Synonyms:
- mysticness
Examples of mysticity in a sentence
- Has any artist ever given us its mysticity, its strange gloom, its ominousness?1884, Mary Linskill, Between the Heather and the Northern Sea, volume III, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], pages 348–349:
- Flavian had caught, in fact, something of the rhyming cadence, the sonorous organ-music of the medieval Latin, and therewithal something of its unction and mysticity of spirit.1885, Walter Pater, Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas, 2nd edition, London: Macmillan and Co., page 115:
- Whether the somewhat rugged Roman, with his inattention to small matters and to the unobvious, saw the mysticity of the early Christian service and the early Christian basilica, may be doubted; […]1905, M[ildred] A[nna] R[osalie] Tuker, “The Religion of Rome—Classical and Christian”, in L[awrence] P[earsall] Jacks, G[eorge] Dawes...
- We now approach a point in ancient philosophy concerning Man that is amazing for its simplicity and startling for its mysticity.1957, Hilton Hotema, The Breath of Life and the Flame Divine, Pomeroy, Wash.: Health Research Books, page 4:
Synonyms of mysticity
Origin of mysticity
From mystic + -ity, after French mysticité.
Questions about mysticity
- What does mysticity mean?
- Mysticity means the quality of being mystic or mystical.
- How do you use mysticity in a sentence?
- Has any artist ever given us its mysticity, its strange gloom, its ominousness?
- What part of speech is mysticity?
- Mysticity is a noun.
Words near mysticity in the dictionary
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