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twilight language

twilight language noun: a secret communication system, involving verbal, nonvisual, or visual symbols, associated with tantric traditions in Vajrayana Buddhism and Hinduism.

Noun

twilight language (countable and uncountable, plural twilight languages)

  1. A secret communication system, involving verbal, nonvisual, or visual symbols, associated with tantric traditions in Vajrayana Buddhism and Hinduism.
    • Therefore, when you hear your song for the first time and it seems to be nothing more than babble, do not dismiss it. For the words, should you receive them immediately, will not be in Chinese, Spanish, Sanskrit or any ancient earthly tongue. They will be in one of a multitude of twilight...1987, Laeh Maggie Garfield, Sound Medicine, Berkeley, C.A.: Celestial Arts, →ISBN, page 45
    • One of the leading subjects of his research, conspiracy theorist James Shelby Downard, proposed a scenario about the JFK assassination that contained a fascinating speculation about the importance of Freemasonic "twilight language" (double and triple meanings, numerology, and onomatology).2012 April 12, Steven Heller, “The Secret History of Secret Societies”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

Forms of twilight language

pluraltwilight languages

Origin of twilight language

Calque of Sanskrit सांध्याभाषा (sāṃdhyābhāṣā).

Questions about twilight language

What does twilight language mean?
Twilight language means a secret communication system, involving verbal, nonvisual, or visual symbols, associated with tantric traditions in Vajrayana Buddhism and Hinduism.
What part of speech is twilight language?
Twilight language is a noun.
What is the plural of twilight language?
The plural of twilight language is twilight languages.

Words near twilight language in the dictionary

  1. twilight anesthesia
  2. twilight birth
  3. twilight births
  4. twilight industries
  5. twilight industry
  6. twilight language
  7. twilight languages
  8. Twilight of the Gods
  9. twilight shift
  10. twilight shifts
  11. twilight sleep

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