RELIGIOUS MYSTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious mystic mean? 

• RELIGIOUS MYSTIC (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS MYSTIC has 1 sense:

1. someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS MYSTIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUS MYSTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

mystic; religious mystic

Hypernyms ("religious mystic" is a kind of...):

believer; worshiper; worshipper (a person who has religious faith)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious mystic"):

quietist (a religious mystic who follows quietism)

Instance hyponyms:

Buddha; Gautama; Gautama Buddha; Gautama Siddhartha; Siddhartha (founder of Buddhism (c 563-483 BC))

Chuang-tzu (4th-century Chinese philosopher on whose teachings Lao-tse based Taoism)

Behmen; Boehm; Boehme; Bohme; Jakob Behmen; Jakob Boehm; Jakob Boehme; Jakob Bohme (German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624))

Eckhart; Johannes Eckhart; Meister Eckhart (German Roman Catholic theologian and mystic (1260-1327))