numen
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈnjuː.mən/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈnuː.mən/
Noun

numen (plural numina)

  1. A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
    • 1671, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Chapter 4:
      The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]
  2. An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant.



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