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Occult
Occult Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Occult?
[n] supernatural forces and events and beings collectively; "She doesn't believe in the supernatural"
[adj] having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients"
[adj] hidden and difficult to see; "an occult fracture"; "occult blood in the stool"
[v] hide from view; "The lids were occulting her eyes"
[v] become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; "The beam of light occults every so often"
[v] cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Occult: eclipse |
esoteric |
invisible |
mysterious |
mystic |
mystical |
orphic |
secret |
supernatural |
unseeable
Related Terms | Find terms related to Occult: abstract |
abstruse |
airy |
anagogic |
apply to |
arcana |
arcane |
arcanum |
asomatous |
astral |
baffling |
becloud |
beclouded |
bedarken |
bedim |
befog |
begloom |
between the lines |
black |
black magic |
black out |
blacken |
blanket |
blind |
block |
block the light |
blot out |
bodiless |
bodilessness |
brown |
buried |
bury |
cabala |
cabalic |
cabalism |
cabalistic |
cabbala |
cabbalism |
cabbalistic |
cache |
camouflage |
canopy |
cast a shadow |
censored |
classified |
classified information |
cloak |
close |
closed |
clothe |
cloud |
cloud over |
clouded |
conceal |
concealed |
confidence |
confidential communication |
cope |
cover |
cover up |
covered |
covert |
cowl |
dark |
darken |
darken over |
decarnate |
decarnated |
deep |
delitescent |
dim |
dim out |
discarnate |
disembodied |
disguise |
dissemble |
distract attention from |
ditch |
dormant |
eclipse |
eclipsed |
eerie |
eeriness |
elfdom |
encloud |
encompass with shadow |
enigma |
enigmatic |
ensconce |
enshroud |
envelop |
esoteric |
esoterica |
ethereal |
extramundane |
extraterrestrial |
faerie |
fey |
film |
ghostliness |
ghostly |
gloom |
gloss over |
guarded secret |
heavy |
hermetic |
hermetics |
hibernating |
hid |
hidden |
hide |
hood |
hush-hush |
hypernormal |
hyperphysical |
immaterial |
immateriality |
immaterialness |
impalpability |
impalpable |
impenetrable |
imponderability |
imponderable |
in a cloud |
in a fog |
in eclipse |
in purdah |
in the wings |
incommunicado |
incomprehensible |
incorporate |
incorporeal |
incorporeality |
incorporeity |
indecipherable |
inexplicable |
inextension |
inscrutable |
insubstantial |
intangibility |
intangible |
keep under cover |
latent |
lay on |
lay over |
lurking |
magical |
mantle |
mask |
metaphysic |
miraculousness |
muffle |
muffled |
murk |
mysterious |
mysteriousness |
mystery |
mystery of mysteries |
mystic |
mystical |
mystifying |
nonexteriority |
nonmaterial |
nonphysical |
numinous |
numinousness |
obduce |
obfuscate |
obfuscated |
obnubilate |
obscure |
obscured |
obumbrate |
occult phenomena |
occultate |
occultism |
otherworldliness |
otherworldly |
overcast |
overcloud |
overlay |
overshadow |
overspread |
perplexing |
personal matter |
phantom |
possible |
potential |
preterhuman |
preternatural |
preternaturalism |
preternormal |
pretersensual |
private |
private matter |
privileged communication |
privity |
privy |
profound |
profound secret |
psychic |
psychical research |
psychicism |
psychics |
psychism |
put on |
puzzling |
recondite |
restricted |
restricted information |
screen |
scum |
sealed book |
secluded |
secluse |
secret |
secrete |
sequestered |
shade |
shadow |
shadowiness |
shadowy |
shield |
shroud |
shrouded |
sleeping |
slur over |
smothered |
somber |
sorcery |
spirit world |
spiritual |
spirituality |
spirituousness |
spread over |
stash |
stifled |
submerged |
superhuman |
superhumanity |
superimpose |
supernatural |
supernaturalism |
supernaturality |
supernaturalness |
supernature |
supernormal |
supernormalness |
superphysical |
superphysicalness |
superpose |
supersensible |
supersensibleness |
supersensual |
suppressed |
supramundane |
supranatural |
supranaturalism |
supranature |
the occult |
the supernatural |
the supersensible |
the unknown |
theosophical |
theosophist |
top secret |
transcendental |
transcendentalism |
transmundane |
ulterior |
unbreatheable |
under an eclipse |
under cover |
under house arrest |
under security |
under the surface |
under wraps |
underground |
underlying |
undisclosable |
undisclosed |
undivulgable |
undivulged |
unearthliness |
unearthly |
unembodied |
unexplainable |
unexplained |
unextended |
unfathomable |
unfleshly |
unhuman |
unknown |
unmanifested |
unphysical |
unrevealable |
unrevealed |
unspoken |
unsubstantial |
unsubstantiality |
unsubstantialness |
untellable |
untold |
unutterable |
unuttered |
unwhisperable |
unworldliness |
unworldly |
vague |
varnish |
veil |
veiled |
virtual |
weird |
whitewash |
witchcraft |
witchery |
wrapped in clouds
See Also | causal agency |
causal agent |
cause |
change |
conceal |
Destiny |
Fate |
hold back |
hold in |
overshadow |
spiritual being |
supernatural being
Occult In Webster's Dictionary
\Oc*cult"\, a. [L. occultus, p. p. of occulere to cover
up, hide; ob (see {Ob-}) + a root prob.akin to E. hell: cf.
F. occulte.]
Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret;
concealed; unknown.
It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its
advances as to escape observation. --I. Taylor.
{Occult line} (Geom.), a line drawn as a part of the
construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in
the finished plan.
{Occult qualities}, those qualities whose effects only were
observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive
agencies were undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen.
{Occult sciences}, those sciences of the Middle Ages which
related to the supposed action or influence of occult
qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic,
necromancy, and astrology.
\Oc*cult"\, v. t.
To eclipse; to hide from sight.
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