of or pertaining to a numen, of or pertaining to a divine spirit; resembling a deity, spiritual in nature; mysterious, supernatural
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Numinous Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Adjective
1. evincing the presence of a deity; "a numinous wood"; "the most numinous moment in the Mass"
(similar) sacred
2. of or relating to or characteristic of a numen
(pertainym) numen
Numinous Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Numinous is an English adjective describing the power or presence of a divinity. The word was popularised in the early twentieth century by the German theologian Rudolf Otto in his influential book Das Heilige (1917; translated into English as The Idea of the Holy, 1923). According to Otto, the numinous experience has in addition to the tremendum, which is the tendency to invoke fear and trembling, a quality of fascinans, the tendency to attract, fascinate and compel. The numinous experience also has a personal quality to it, in that the person feels to be in communion with a wholly other. The numinous experience can lead in different cases to belief in deities, the supernatural, the sacred, the holy, and/or the transcendent.
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