mysticalityn.
/ˌmɪstᵻˈkalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌmɪstəˈkælədi/ The quality of being mystical; mystical effect.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [noun] > mysterious state or quality
mysticalness1608
mysterya1616
abstruseness1628
mysteriousness1633
abstrusity1649
mysticity1761
mysticality1834
sphinxineness1845
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > condition
mysticalness1608
mysteriousness1633
mysticity1761
mysticality1834
mysticnessa1835
1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 425 There is a fashion of mysticality in modern writers of verse which is in very bad taste.
1902 Daily Chron. 1 Nov. 3 Those who care for ‘mysticality’—as an American writer would say.
1923 J. W. Harvey tr. R. Otto Idea of Holy xvii. 146 By being steeped in and saturated with national elements it is guarded from sinking into fanaticism or mere mysticality.
1978 L. Beckwith Bruach Blend (1980) ii. 33 A slim weather-chiselled pinnacle of rock which by day had no mysticality.
1999 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 10 Jan. 21 The way the eerie mysticality of St. John's Apocalypse has been rendered in stone is awe-inspiring even today.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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