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Numinous
Numinous meaning
Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity. | Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-inspiring.
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He has a soft spot for numinous spectators who care nothing for human morality but can perhaps teach other characters to appreciate the world’s aesthetic potential.
When faith finally tiptoed into my life it didn’t come through information or persuasion but, at least at first, through numinous experiences.
A bias toward the empirical, toward the evidential object in the numinous fullness of its being, leads to a certain lininess, as the artist intently maps the visible in a New World that feels surrounded by chaos and emptiness.
The names of the first three Æsir in Norse mythology, Vili, Vé and Odin all refer to spiritual or mental state, vili to conscious will or desire, vé to the sacred or numinous and óðr to the manic or ecstatic.