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mysticism

(mɪstɪsɪzəm)
uncountable noun
Mysticism is a religious practice in which people search for truth, knowledge, and closeness to God through meditation and prayer.

mysticism in British English

(ˈmɪstɪˌsɪzəm)
noun
1. 
belief in or experience of a reality surpassing normal human understanding or experience, esp a reality perceived as essential to the nature of life
2. 
a system of contemplative prayer and spirituality aimed at achieving direct intuitive experience of the divine
3. 
obscure or confused belief or thought

mysticism in American English

(ˈmɪstəˌsɪzəm)
noun
1. 
the doctrines or beliefs of mystics; specif., the doctrine that it is possible to achieve communion with God through contemplation
2. 
any doctrine that asserts the possibility of attaining an intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths through meditation
3. 
vague, obscure, or confused thinking or belief

Examples of 'mysticism' in a sentence
mysticism

Contains three important essays relevant to medieval mysticism.
Christianity Today (2000)
It's generally lumped in with all kinds of other eastern mysticism.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They'd taken to the streets to speed the revolution or were lost in dreams of hippie mysticism.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Indeed it relied on an opposition central to the mindset of medieval mysticism in the form of a radical separation of this world and the next.
Jack Turner SPICE: The History of a Temptation (2004)

In other languages
mysticism

British English: mysticism NOUN
Mysticism is a religious practice in which people search for truth, knowledge, and closeness to God through meditation and prayer.
As a younger man he was intrigued by Indian mysticism.
  • American English: mysticism
  • Brazilian Portuguese: misticismo
  • Chinese: 神秘主义 >一种通过冥想和祷告寻求真理、知识以及与神相通的宗教行为
  • European Spanish: misticismo
  • French: mysticisme
  • German: Mystizismus
  • Italian: misticismo
  • Japanese: 神秘主義
  • Korean: 신비주의
  • European Portuguese: misticismo
  • Latin American Spanish: misticismo
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