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  • noun The state or quality of being numinous.

Etymologies

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From numinous +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • The numinousness also takes a strange form, because the books are about the Fall and about creating a "Republic of Heaven."

    Let's talk about a different book: a fantasy story that even A.S. Byatt could love. meverettlane 2007

  • The UC Berkeley professor and award-winning author, reliably visible at fundraisers, colloquia and protest rallies, seems one of those figures whose persona has acquired a certain moral numinousness in the public mind - much the way Japan designates its best artists Living

    SFGate: Top News Stories books@sfchronicle.com (Joan Frank 2011

  • He said, 'I believe we permanently lost contact of the possibilities of being in touch with the numinousness of an ancient civilization.'

    Austin360 - XL Headlines 2009

  • Therein lies some of the numinousness that surround issues of how we determine methods of theological interpretation.

    Inhabitatio Dei 2009

  • A personal God, majestic in his spender and magnitude, possessing in his person the qualities of ineffability, incomparability, numinousness, and immutability.

    ExChristian.Net -- encouraging ex-Christians 2008

  • A personal God, majestic in his spender and magnitude, possessing in his person the qualities of ineffability, incomparability, numinousness, and immutability.

    ExChristian.Net -- encouraging ex-Christians 2008

  • Shade as 'a gothic novel of a kind '; it echoes his preoccupation elsewhere with the irrational, the numinousness of things. "

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • He writes in his memoir that the first time, he calls it numinousness, but really the first time he had the feeling of the sacred, or of God, was looking at this just tiny little world that his brother had made out of moss, and sticks, and whatever and that something about it… Yes, it has some kind of magical, numinous feeling to us to see something tiny.

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