OCCULTISMS Synonyms

• requiring secret or mysterious knowledge

• a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon

• successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck

• a prediction uttered under divine inspiration

• the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means

• a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual

• a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

• a magical spell

• any art that invokes supernatural powers

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

• relating to or resembling mysticism

• relating to or characteristic of mysticism

• someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension

• having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

• a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality

• obscure or irrational thought

• the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world

• conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying

• supernatural forces and events and beings collectively

• supernatural practices and techniques

• hidden and difficult to see

• having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding

• cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention

• become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished

• hide from view

• existing outside of or not in accordance with nature

• seemingly outside normal sensory channels

• not in accordance with scientific laws

• any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes)

• an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans

• possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

• the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world

• a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

• concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church

• concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul

• lacking material body or form or substance

• resembling or characteristic of a phantom

• not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material

• supernatural forces and events and beings collectively

• any art that invokes supernatural powers

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the effect of supernatural or divine intervention in human affairs

• white magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits (as formerly practiced by Neoplatonists)

• a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers

• (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities

• a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities

• bewitch by or as if by a voodoo