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RELIGIOUS MYSTIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does religious mystic mean?
• RELIGIOUS MYSTIC (noun)
The noun RELIGIOUS MYSTIC has 1 sense:
1. someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension
Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS MYSTIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
mystic; religious mystic
Hypernyms ("religious mystic" is a kind of...):
believer; worshiper; worshipper (a person who has religious faith)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious mystic"):
quietist (a religious mystic who follows quietism)
Instance hyponyms:
Buddha; Gautama; Gautama Buddha; Gautama Siddhartha; Siddhartha (founder of Buddhism (c 563-483 BC))
Chuang-tzu (4th-century Chinese philosopher on whose teachings Lao-tse based Taoism)
Behmen; Boehm; Boehme; Bohme; Jakob Behmen; Jakob Boehm; Jakob Boehme; Jakob Bohme (German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624))
Eckhart; Johannes Eckhart; Meister Eckhart (German Roman Catholic theologian and mystic (1260-1327))
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