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

“Is this just sensory stimulation? Is this gesturing at the numinous? Is this referencing the mystical? There’s no meta-narrative here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2022

“Risley continues her disconcerting deconstruction of perceived gender and its relationship to perceived power, especially in respect to numinous imagery,” she says.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood