numinous

1. 1.

   evincing the presence of a deity

   “a numinous wood”

   “the most numinous moment in the Mass”

   Similarsacred
2. 2.

   of or relating to or characteristic of a numen

Questions about numinous

What does numinous mean?

numinous means "evincing the presence of a deity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in numinous?

numinous has 3 syllables: nu-mi-nous. The stress falls on "nu".

Is numinous a common word?

numinous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.