different between mystic vs esoterism

English

Alternative forms

• mystick (archaic)
• mystical (adjective)

Etymology

From Old French mistique, from Latin mysticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from ?????? (múst?s, “one who has been initiated”). Doublet of mystique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?st?k/
• Rhymes: -?st?k

Adjective

mystic (comparative more mystic, superlative most mystic)

1. Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.

   a mystic dance

2. Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.
   • 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody

     Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man.

Translations

Noun

mystic (plural mystics)

1. Someone who practices mysticism.

Translations

Related terms

• mysterious
• mystery
• mystical
• mysticism
• mystify
• mystique

References

• mystic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “mystic”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• mystic in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• mystic at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Noun

esoterism (countable and uncountable, plural esoterisms)

1. The inward forms of faith and religion; transcendence, mystic experience, and internal realizations of the Divine.
2. Being esoteric.

Quotations

• 1937. Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, page 622,

  In the case of modern fraternal societies, with their trappings of esoterism, the ceremonial becomes the chief function of the organization...

• 1958. Sidney David Braun, Dictionary of French Literature, Philosophical Library, page 331,

  By 1896 Symbolism had dissolved into a multitude of little chapels calling themselves Paroxysm, Esoterism, Naturism...

• 2005. Guenon, Rene Guenon, Henry D. Fohr, Cecil Bethell, Michael Allen, Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage, page 37

  It should not be forgotten that just as there is an Islamic esoterism, so also at the time was there a Catholic esoterism also, by which we mean an esoterism taking as its basis and support the symbols and rites of the Catholic religion.

Translations

See also

• esotericism
• esoteric
• exoterism

References

• Esoterism, in

Dictionary of Mysticism, by Frank Gaynor, 1973, page 58.

• esoterism, in New Encyclopedia of Islam.

Anagrams

• resistome