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Numinous is a literary and religious word. A place, a piece of music, or a moment is numinous if it feels holy, strange, and larger than ordinary life — as if something divine is near. It does not have to name a particular god. A quiet temple at , a huge night sky, a sudden hush in a church: those can feel numinous. The feeling is not simply “pretty” or “scary.” It is the sense that you have close to something sacred. Writers, theologians, and careful use the word. You will almost never hear it in the market or on the bus. Though actually, it looks a little like numerical, and a little like luminous, and it is related to neither in meaning. It is about presence, not about numbers or light.
神聖而神秘的
組成Latin nūmen (“a nod; divine will or presence; divinity”) + -ous (“having that quality”). Nūmen is thought to come either from a Latin verb “to nod” or, some say, from Greek nooúmenon, “something the mind can grasp but the senses cannot”; scholars do not all agree.
同家族的字
- numenthe English borrowing of that same Latin noun, meaning a divine presence
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
numinousadj/ˈnjuːmɪnəs/
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Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity.
- His interest in numinous objects led him on a quest for the Holy Grail.
- The fetish of Huitzilopochtli, bundled up and screened from profane eyes, now preceded the wandering group, carried on the back of his oracle-priest or sorcerer who alone was holy enough to handle safely the numinous object.
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Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-inspiring.
- The Will of a King is very numinous; it hath a kind of vast universality in it, it is many times greater than the will of his whole Kingdom, stiffened with ill Counsel and ill Presidents: […]
- Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth. In the songs Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard sang was either some fraction of the truth's numinous beauty (as Mucho now believed) or only a power spectrum.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。