Numinous

Word NUMINOUS
Character 8
Hyphenation numinous
Pronunciations /ˈnjuːmɪnəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Numinous"

What do we mean by numinous?

Of or relating to a numen; supernatural. adjective

Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence. adjective

Spiritually elevated; sublime. adjective

Evincing the presence of a deity. adjective

Same as supernatural. adjective

Related to a numen; indicating the presence of a divinity adjective

Awe-inspiring; evoking a sense of the transcendent, mystical or sublime. adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of a numen adjective

Evincing the presence of a deity adjective

Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity.

Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-inspiring.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Numinous

The word "numinous" in example sentences

The term numinous is also used by C.G. Jung to depict a spiritual experience involving some kind of alteration of ego-based consciousness (i.e. "altered states"). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term numinous is often said to have been coined by the German Lutheran scholar Rudolf ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just as many of the people who believe in numinous coincidence and supernatural intervention are secretly hoping to prove that it is they themselves who are the pet of the universe, so many of those who overcompensate for inferiority are possessed of titanic egos and regard other people as necessary but incidental. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think that our experience of the numinous is both undeniable and entirely biological: the state of spiritual peace is the result of tickling some evolved center of our brain, a bit of neurology that conferred a survival advantage on our ancestors whose numinous hallucinations of a higher order in the universe drove them to catch more antelopes, eat better, and have more babies. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You can read the book fairly quickly, but there are things you'll want to come back to -- some of the musings about destiny, and the place of what some call the numinous or the fates, some call the workings of God, in the way things turn out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

numinous” from the Latin word numen, which denoted a supernatural nonpersonalized being. ❋ S. G. F. BRANDON (1968)

I think that this kind of passion is also connected, and that, in touching it we are connected to something numinous, which is actually a long way to go from a venture capital-baiting blog post, but there you are. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The numinous is a reliably elusive theme for a writer, and Burnside hunts it down like an indefatigable lepidopterist. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But people too have long felt the beauty of trees; what the theologian Bruno Otto called their "numinous" quality. ❋ Colin Tudge (2010)

Perhaps it was just his way of tweaking the nose of a reaper he does not believe in, but Hitchens hinted at a belief – or a yearning, or an understanding: what he called a "numinous" or "transcendent" element of human experience. ❋ Paul Harris (2010)

"Hand of Isis" is a very good retelling situated within the "numinous" reinterpretation of history that Ms. Graham is continuing in "Stealing Fire", but it did not bring anything new for me; however I would strongly recommend it as a first novel about Cleopatra. ❋ Liviu (2010)

The "numinous" aspect that involves reincarnation and mystic dreams, encounters with Gods, prophecies and foretelling puts Stealing Fire firmly in the fantasy camp but the relative faithfulness to historical record as the big picture goes, grounds also the novel in "reality". ❋ Liviu (2010)

I prefer a more rigorous - a more dogged - exposition of how they identify what is "numinous", personally. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

Wonderful comments in the main though I've never much cared for critics who loftily wave their pale hands towards the "numinous" in literature. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

On the other hand, some may feel that the appeals to the "numinous" that Carl Sagan often made, threaten to reduce all religious experience to an appreciation for physics. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)

And so when I saw the Earth as this wonderful Whole -- and this was, I believe, some years before Lovelock came out with that Gaia hypothesis (or at least before I got wind of it) -- I was already getting into a kind of numinous space. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The pertinent definition of "numinous" is: "surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious: that element in artistic expression that remains numinous." ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

About four years ago, A.S. Byatt wrote a surprisingly venomous attack on the Harry Potter books, accusing them of being childish, derivative, and lacking in real, "numinous" magic. ❋ Meverettlane (2007)

(BookBrowse note My two-volume Oxford English Dictionary didn't list 'numinous' but I did find a definition at HyperDictionary. com [adj] evincing the presence of a deity; a numinous wood; the most numinous moment in the Mass). ❋ Unknown (2004)

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