numen

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈnjuː.mən/    美 /ˈnuː.mən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
    — The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]
  2. An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendent.
    — […]but never did the places or the persons turn into idols for my irrational worship. It was only the numen in them that I loved, who, as I passed by abstracted, whispered some immortal word in my ear.

词形变化

numina plural

词汇关系

相关词
numinous numinal

词源

Etymology tree
Latin nūmenbor.
English numen
Borrowed from Latin nūmen.
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