numinous

Example Sentences

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Other people are already, in some sense, absent—existing only in our mental perception or, these days, in the numinous world of our extended digital consciousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Kirk was after something cooler, grander, more numinous and entirely of the moment: celebrity as a celebration of itself, untethered to any specific skills or accomplishments.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

Similarly, the sense of the numinous, of potencies beyond human understanding, is made explicit and manifest, particularly in an early conversation about dark energy.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

The fruit in those same kitchens looked numinous in the morning light.

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

He’d only heard about it from Erastis, who described it in numinous terms, as if the Book were made out of light and magic instead of paper and thread.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee