The Meaning of mysticism

• (n.) Obscurity of doctrine.
• (n.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
• (n.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.

Synonyms

religious mysticism

Rhymes

abolitionism , absolutism , activism , adventurism , agrarianism , alcoholism , altruism , americanism , anachronism , aneurism , anglo-catholicism , animism , antagonism , anti-catholicism , aphorism , arianism , astigmatism , atheism , authoritarianism , autism , barbarism , bilingualism , bolshevism , botulism , cannibalism , capitalism , catechism , catholicism , centralism , chauvinism , chisholm , chism , chisum , classicism , collectivism , colonialism , commercialism , communism , confucianism , consumerism , corporatism , creationism , criticism , cronyism , cynicism , dandyism , darwinism , despotism , determinism , diamagnetism , diastrophism , dogmatism , druidism , dualism , dynamism , egalitarianism , egoism , egotism , electromagnetism , elitism , embolism , emotionalism , empiricism , entrepreneurialism , environmentalism , ergotism , eroticism , escapism , euphemism , evangelism , expansionism , expressionism , extremism , fanaticism , fascism , fatalism , favoritism , federalism , feminism , ferromagnetism , fetishism , feudalism , formalism , fundamentalism , futurism , geotropism , gradualism , hedonism , hellenism , helotism , heroism , hinduism , hooliganism , humanism , illusionism , imperialism , impressionism , individualism , intellectualism , ism , isolationism , jansenism , journalism , judaism , leftism , legalism , leninism , liberalism , lyricism , magnetism , mannerism , materialism , mechanism , mercantilism , mesmerism , metabolism , methodism , microorganism , militarism , minimalism , modernism , monasticism , moralism , mutualism , narcissism , nationalism , nativism , naturalism , negativism , nepotism , neutralism , opportunism , optimism , organism , ostracism , overoptimism , pacifism , paganism , parallelism , parochialism , pastoralism , paternalism , patriotism , perfectionism , peronism , pessimism , pharisaism , plagiarism , pluralism , populism , positivism , pragmatism , prism , prizm , professionalism , protectionism , protestantism , provincialism , puritanism , racialism , racism , reaganism , recidivism , relativism , republicanism , revisionism , rheumatism , romanticism , satanism , schism , scism , sectarianism , secularism , semitism , sensationalism , separatism , skepticism , socialism , stalinism , statism , stigmatism , stoicism , supernaturalism , surrealism , symbolism , synergism , territorialism , terrorism , tokenism , totalitarianism , tourism , trism , unilateralism , unionism , voluntarism , zionism