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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
mysticism
    n 1: a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate
         reality [syn: mysticism, religious mysticism]
    2: obscure or irrational thought

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mysticism \Mys"ti*cism\, n. [Cf. F. mysticisme.]
   1. Obscurity of doctrine.
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   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.
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   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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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
afflatus, anagoge, anagogics, anthroposophy, apocalypse, cabala, cabalism, direct communication, divine inspiration, divine revelation, epiphany, esotericism, esoterics, esoterism, esotery, hocus-pocus, inspiration, mumbo jumbo, mystery, mystical experience, mystification, occultism, prophecy, revelation, symbolics, symbolism, theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, yoga, yogeeism, yogism
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