neo-mysticadj.n.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)ˈmɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈmɪstɪk/ A. adj.
= neo-mystical adj.
ΚΠ
1896 H. R. Haweis Dead Pulpit i. 5 The neo-Mystic Broad Church prophet.
1958 L. Steinberg in S. K. Langer Reflections on Art 243 André Malraux, whose Psychology of Art forms a brilliant brief for the moot values of the modern, neo-mystic taste in art.
1993 Crosswinds (New Mexico) Jan. 11/3 I am a neo-mystic painter.
B. n.
A modern mystic or advocate of mysticism.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > person
mystic1640
neo-mystic1932
1932 Philos. Rev. 41 44 Democrats with a Neo-Kantian philosophy, neo-mystics, neo-romantics, neo-conservative sociologists, and German racial theorists, all go back to him [sc. Plato] somehow or other.
1939 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. & Polit. Sci. 5 177 Good conduct is a necessity to the mustical experience, even of the neo-mystics like Aldous Huxley.
1969 Amer. Hist. Rev. 74 1202 Despairing of all efforts to give Fascism a philosophical base, the neo-mystics rejected rationality in all its forms in favor of faith in the genius of Mussolini.
1993 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 4 July (Sunday Datebk.) 27 Looking..like a rumpled rabbi in business clothes or an eastern-garbed neomystic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1896- hear ill
- hear mass
- hear of
- hear of both ears
- hear of it
- hear one his lessons
- hear oneself think
- hear out
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- hear say
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- hear the last call
- hear the retreat
- hear to
- hear told
- hear voices
- hear!
- hear! hear!
- hear, hear!
- hear, read, speak, talk wonders
- hear- him
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- hear-saying