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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun occultism has 2 senses
- occultism(n = noun.cognition) - the study of the supernatural; is a kind of bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field
- occultism(n = noun.cognition) - a belief in supernatural powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control; is a kind of supernaturalism
Derived form noun occultist1
Derived form noun occultist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
occultism, n.
- A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett. [1913 Webster]
- Belief in occult powers or in supernatural forces other than the God of traditional religions, such as in magic, necromancy, alchemy, and astrology. [PJC]
- The study and alleged use of supernatural agencies as in magic, astrology, witchcraft, alchemy, necromancy, spiritualism (communication with the dead), and fortune-telling. [PJC]
THESAURUS
occultism
bodilessness, ghostliness, immateriality, immaterialness, impalpability, imponderability, incorporeality, incorporeity, inextension, intangibility, nonexteriority, occult phenomena, otherworldliness, psychical research, psychicism, psychics, psychism, shadowiness, spirit world, spirituality, spirituousness, supernaturalism, the occult, unearthliness, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, unworldliness
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