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- DictionaryNu·mi·nous/ˈno͞omənəs/
adjective
- 1. having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity: "the strange, numinous beauty of this ancient landmark"
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- Numinous
Arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring
Numinous means "arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring"; also "supernatural" or "appealing to the aesthetic sensibility." The term was given its present sense by the German theologian and philosopher Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book The Idea of the Holy. He also used the phrase mysterium tremendum as another description for the phenomenon. Otto's concep... Wikipedia
