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esotericism

noun

Etymology

From esoteric + -ism.

  1. learned borrowing from ἐσωτερικός — “belonging to an inner circle”
  2. formed as esotericism — “esoteric + -ism”

Definitions

  1. The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.

  2. Doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge.

    • Near-synonym: woo woo
    • Western esotericism

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for esotericism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA