Numen

//ˈnuː.mən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.

    "The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]"

  2. 2
    a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) wordnet
  3. 3
    An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendent.

    "[…]but never did the places or the persons turn into idols for my irrational worship. It was only the numen in them that I loved, who, as I passed by abstracted, whispered some immortal word in my ear."

Etymology

From Latin nūmen.

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