Mysticism
Pronunciation : Mys"ti*cism
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Cf. F. mysticisme.]
Definition : 1. Obscurity of doctrine.
2. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
3. (Philos.)
Defn: The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913