RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious mysticism mean? 

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

1. a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM (noun)

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Meaning:

A religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

mysticism; religious mysticism

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

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

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

quietism (a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God)

Sufism (Islamic mysticism)