numinous

Speech parts

1. numinous - Adjective

2. numinous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of or relating to or characteristic of a numen

evincing the presence of a deity

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

holy mystic airy good religious superior weird unearthly ideal pure spiritual spirit magic divine abstract
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Antonyms

certain real true material physical normal
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Related terms

numen numinal

Examples

Anyhow, that's our story. And I think, in my glimpses of the great encompassing mechanism that has shaped us all, I've seen a little of the numinous. That's enough of God for me. Stephen Baxter

There is also something more [...] because as humans we possess, call it reason, spirit, consciousness, what ever, it's a numinous element beyond the perfunctory form following function. Vanna Bonta

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence. Stephen Fry

I've always had numinous dreams, and a lot of them feature a Dionysian character I named The Boy in the Tree. Elizabeth Hand

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Robert Hass

There is no wicked and numinous paternal 'they'. There are only brothers and sisters like ourselves: fragile receivers and mete-ers out of ambivalent and often fratricidal fraternity. James Alison

Close letter words and terms

numinal Numinbah horse sickness numinosity numinously numinousness numisma