| 释义 |
esotericism|ɛsəʊˈtɛrɪsɪz(ə)m, iːsəʊ-|
[f. esoteric + -ism.]
= next. Also, a tendency toward esoteric thought or language, obscurity; an example of such thought or language.
1846Christian Observer in Worcester. Hence in later Dicts. 1885Mrs. H. Ward tr. Amiel's Jrnl. II. 315 Yes, but still a certain esotericism [orig. ésotérisme] is inevitable, since critical, scientific, and philosophical culture is only attainable by a minority. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 1 One of the most peculiar features of literature during the last thirty or forty years has been the steady movement of a part of it towards esotericism. 1955Essays in Criticism V. 421 Yeats's intellectual esotericisms (such as the phrase ‘perne in a gyre’ in Sailing to Byzantium). 1963Times 14 Mar. 16/2 It is still possible to write..without code words or esotericism.
So esoˈtericist, one who holds esoteric doctrines. Also ˈesoterist (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1893).
1891Review of Rev. 15 June 522/2 She [sc. Madame Blavatsky] made all her ‘esotericists’, as she called them, send her their photographs. 1892Ch. Times 1 Apr. 337/1 Further on the esotericist is identified with the Rationalist. 1954W. Y. Evans-Wentz Tibetan Bk. Great Liberation 33 The Christian exotericists, derived largely from uncultured slave populations, inaugurated a religious revolution against the Christian esotericists, the cultured and well-born followers of the Gnosis. |