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Evincing the presence of a deity; as, a numinous wood; the most numinous moment in the Mass.
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same as supernatural.
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sacred; filled with the presence of the divinity; magical
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(adj) having spiritual, mysterious, or holy qualities
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Numinous ( or ) is a term coined by Rudolf Otto to describe that which is wholly other. The numinous is the mysterium tremendum et fascinans that leads in different cases to belief in deities, the supernatural, the sacred, the holy, and the transcendent.
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