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Occultism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The study of the supernatural countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a belief in supernatural powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control wordnet
  3. 3
    A belief in occult powers and the hope of controlling them countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the study of the supernatural wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French occultisme, analyzable as occult + -ism.

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