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numinosity

noun

numinosity

noun

Etymology From Latin nūmin- + -osity.

1

Quality of being numinous.

  • Civilization is, through the numinosity of divine kingship, the mediation between the impossible heights of the gods and the terrifying depths of the underworld.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:

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