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RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does religious mysticism mean?
• RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM (noun)
The noun RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM has 1 sense:
1. a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
mysticism; religious mysticism
Hypernyms ("religious mysticism" is a kind of...):
faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious mysticism"):
quietism (a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God)
Sufism (Islamic mysticism)
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