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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
mys·ti·cism       [mis-tuh-siz-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the beliefs, ideas, or mode of thought of mystics.
2.a doctrine of an immediate spiritual intuition of truths believed to transcend ordinary understanding, or of a direct, intimate union of the soul with God through contemplation or ecstasy.
3.obscure thought or speculation.
[Origin: 1730–40; mystic + -ism]
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mys·ti·cism       (mĭs'tĭ-sĭz'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. Immediate consciousness of the transcendent or ultimate reality or God.
    2. The experience of such communion as described by mystics.
  2. A belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or intellectual apprehension that are central to being and directly accessible by subjective experience.
  3. Vague, groundless speculation.

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mysticism

noun
1. a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality 
2. obscure or irrational thought 

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American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
mysticism

In religion, the attempt by an individual to achieve a personal union with God or with some other divine being or principle. Mystics generally practice daily meditation.


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Mysticism

Mys"ti*cism\, n. [Cf. F. mysticisme.]

1. Obscurity of doctrine.

2. (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.

3. (Philos.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.

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