MYSTICS | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Mystic

Speech Type: Noun

Etymology:

Middle English (in the sense ‘mystical meaning’): from Old French mystique, or via Latin from Greek mustikos, from mustēs ‘initiated person’ from muein ‘close the eyes or lips’, also ‘initiate’. The current sense of the noun dates from the late 17th century

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ˈmɪstɪk
Dialects: British English
Definition:

a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect

Short Definition:

person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into Deity or absolute

Examples:
  • the poetry of the 16th-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross

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