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Definition of Supernaturalism
1. Noun. A belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding.
Specialized synonyms: Magic, Thaumaturgy, Occultism, Dispossession, Exorcism
Derivative terms: Supernaturalistic
2. Noun. The quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces.
Generic synonyms: Unnaturalness
Derivative terms: Supernaturalistic, Supernatural
Definition of Supernaturalism
1. n. The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness.
Definition of Supernaturalism
1. Noun. The quality or condition of being supernatural. ¹
2. Noun. A belief in the doctrine of supernatural or divine agency as manifested in the world, in human events, religious revelation, miracles, etc. ¹
3. Noun. A belief in supernatural intelligent causes, forces, agencies, powers as producing effects in this world. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Supernaturalism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supernaturalism
Literary usage of Supernaturalism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The question is one of authority: supernaturalism adheres to revelation, rationalism
to ... supernaturalism however docs not sound the entire Biblical and ..."
2. Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors by James Freeman Clarke (1918)
"This is the substance of Orthodox supernaturalism; and this seems to me to be
its truth, separated from its errors. The naturalism of the present time we ..."
3. Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors by James Freeman Clarke (1880)
"This is the substance of Orthodox supernaturalism ; and this seems to me to be
its truth, separated from its errors. The naturalism of the present time we ..."
4. Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology by Alexander Goldenweiser (1922)
"supernaturalism As A WORLD ... The first tenet of early supernaturalism is its
animistic faith. To the world of matter is opposed the world of ' spirit. ..."
5. Psychological Review (1881)
"INDIAN supernaturalism. BY ARTHUR LILLIE. Author of " Buddha and Early Buddhism,"
... ATTENTION has of late been directed to the supernaturalism of India, ..."
6. Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors by James Freeman Clarke (1880)
"The naturalism of the present time we conceive to be partly directed against a
false supernaturalism, and partly to he & mistake arising from a too ..."
7. History of Rationalism: Embracing a Survey of the Present State of by John Fletcher Hurst (1867)
"His book, entitled supernaturalism, Rationalism, and Atheism, went still further ;
for it aimed to show that if the Rationalists believe what they say, ..."
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