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What does numinosity mean?

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Noun
  1. Quality of being numinous.
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Individuals and cultures are alike in having at their disposal images or entities into which numinosity may be deposited.
Originally the word kami was used to describe any mysterious or sacred reality, anything that seemed to possess numinosity.
In every period of worship these things take on the numinosity of faith, each with its inherent worth abruptly revealed.
You have to really engage with it, live it, breathe it, experience the numinosity, the beauty, the sorrow and the joy.
The drier sound of the RFH, however, suits Salonen's approach, which was linear and clear, strong on counterpoint, austerity and dynamic control, if short on awestruck numinosity.
Being charged with power, it is apt to be a site of numinosity, of promise and danger.

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