Occult
adjective
Hidden and hard to understand, often connected with magic.
Many people are afraid to explore the occult.
Often appears as...
- occult practices
- occult knowledge
noun
Knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
She has always had an interest in the occult.
Often appears as...
- study of the occult
- interest in the occult
verb
To hide or block from view.
The moon was occulted by clouds.
Often appears as...
- occult the moon
- occult the view
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Formal
adjective
Hidden and hard to understand, often connected with magic.
Many people are afraid to explore the occult.
Often appears as...
- occult practices
- occult knowledge
noun
Knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
She has always had an interest in the occult.
Often appears as...
- study of the occult
- interest in the occult
verb
To hide or block from view.
The moon was occulted by clouds.
Often appears as...
- occult the moon
- occult the view
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Mystique
Occult often implies mysterious knowledge or activities that mainstream culture may view with suspicion or intrigue.
The ancient book contained many occult symbols that puzzled the archaeologists.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
While 'occult' can have a dark connotation, it is not inherently negative and can just refer to hidden matters.
The herbalist's remedies had an occult significance known only to her.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Scientific
Occult is rarely used in scientific contexts and more often in literary or esoteric ones.
The detective novel explored an occult phenomenon that defied logical explanation.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Mystique
Occult often implies mysterious knowledge or activities that mainstream culture may view with suspicion or intrigue.
The ancient book contained many occult symbols that puzzled the archaeologists.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
While 'occult' can have a dark connotation, it is not inherently negative and can just refer to hidden matters.
The herbalist's remedies had an occult significance known only to her.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Scientific
Occult is rarely used in scientific contexts and more often in literary or esoteric ones.
The detective novel explored an occult phenomenon that defied logical explanation.
Pro Tip 1/3Cultural Mystique
Occult often implies mysterious knowledge or activities that mainstream culture may view with suspicion or intrigue.
The ancient book contained many occult symbols that puzzled the archaeologists.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
While 'occult' can have a dark connotation, it is not inherently negative and can just refer to hidden matters.
The herbalist's remedies had an occult significance known only to her.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Scientific
Occult is rarely used in scientific contexts and more often in literary or esoteric ones.
The detective novel explored an occult phenomenon that defied logical explanation.
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Homeopathy, quackery and...
Those are very important, critically important to us. And we must do something about those problems. But at the same time, as Arthur C. Clarke said, The rotting of the human mind, the business of believing in the paranormal and the occult and the supernatural --
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Why should you read “The...
this surreal blend of political satire, historical fiction, and occult mysticism has earned a legacy as one of the 20th century’s greatest novels– and one of its strangest. The story begins when a meeting between two members of Moscow’s literary elite
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from communion with the dead to pumpkins and pranks Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitch together with cultural religious and occult traditions that spans centuries
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Homeopathy, quackery and...
Those are very important, critically important to us. And we must do something about those problems. But at the same time, as Arthur C. Clarke said, The rotting of the human mind, the business of believing in the paranormal and the occult and the supernatural --
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Why should you read “The...
this surreal blend of political satire, historical fiction, and occult mysticism has earned a legacy as one of the 20th century’s greatest novels– and one of its strangest. The story begins when a meeting between two members of Moscow’s literary elite
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Halloween History PIPE...
from communion with the dead to pumpkins and pranks Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitch together with cultural religious and occult traditions that spans centuries
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Alan Ball
American Director
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.
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Deborah Harkness
American Novelist
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.
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Liberty Hyde Bailey
American Scientist
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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Jason Ralph
American Actor
I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.
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Ernest Holmes
American Theologian
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
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Umberto Eco
Italian Novelist
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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David Copperfield
American Entertainer
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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Shawn Ashmore
Canadian Actor
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
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Alan Ball
American Director
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don't really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it's horrifying. But that's just human nature.
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Deborah Harkness
American Novelist
The occult sciences were simply ancient technologies for making the occult or unseen manifest in the world - whether that was the influence of the stars and planets, the mysterious meanings of lines inscribed in your palm, or forms of action at a distance like magic and spells.
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Liberty Hyde Bailey
American Scientist
I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
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Jason Ralph
American Actor
I've learned a lot of sleight of hand and coin tricks, but as far as the occult is concerned, I have not dabbled. I'm sort of an internal skeptic about those things.
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Ernest Holmes
American Theologian
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
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Umberto Eco
Italian Novelist
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
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David Copperfield
American Entertainer
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.
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Shawn Ashmore
Canadian Actor
The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.
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