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Word Of the Week #2

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Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve your vocabulary by learning new words every week. wowIf you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on my WOW post (like this one.)

This week’s word is:

Numinous

Word: Numinous

Part Of Speech: Adjective

Pronunciation: nU-mi-nus

Meaning: 

Describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet, attracted- the powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed and inspired.

or

Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence.

or

Appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense

Synonyms: Magical, Mystic, Otherworldly, Sacrosanct.

Antonyms: Secular, Profane

Word Origin: Greek

It’s use in a sentence: “Stephen King’s writing is filled with a numinous beauty.”

I hope you guys like this word and hope it’s useful to you in some or the other way!

If you want to participate in WOTW meme then just write a post like this one, link back to The Reading Bud and after posting leave a link to your post here (in comments).

16 responses to “Word Of the Week #2”

  1. author-in-training Avatar
    author-in-training

    What a wondrous word for fantasy writers! I love it!
    Thanks for sharing- this is a clever and needed kind of post.
    Cheers-
    Sue

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks Sue 🙂
      I’m glad I started this meme… there are so many colorful words out there that we all must know…
      I hope you find a way to use it in your beautiful writing 😀

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  2. By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff Avatar
    By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff

    I love your choice Heena! I’m going to try to use this numinous in the book I’m working on for NanoWriMo 🙂 And I love the sentence you chose. I hope Revival is on it’s way to you 🙂

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks Kim and you’re really a sweetheart ❤
      I'm really happy that you found this word good enough to add to your novel. I can't wait to read your book… 🙂
      heheheh! Stephen King popped up in my mind as soon as I read this word for the first time! lol!
      And nay… Revival is not available in India right now. Though I've pre-booked it on amazon, so I'll get it around 15th December or later! It sucks! I so wish that they would have released the book here on the same day or atleast the same month as they did in the rest of the world!

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      1. By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff Avatar
        By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff

        I don’t think I’m brave enough to post any of my book on the blog yet. Thanks to NaNoWriMo though I should have over 10,000 words written by next Sunday 🙂 That’s a lot more than I’ve written in the past year. If I can keep it up I should finish in February or March. Im sorry you have to wait for Revival. That’s just wrong 😦

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        1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
          Heena Rathore P.

          No worries! I’ll wait for your book, nomatter how long it takes! 🙂

          And yea, it’s really unfair! I’ll have to wait for another 20 days to read it 😦

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          1. By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff Avatar
            By Hook Or By Book ~ Book Reviews, News, & Other Stuff

            Aww. Thanks Heena 🙂 As far as Revival goes (I know this is easy for me to say it’s worth the wait!

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  3. annabellefranklinauthor Avatar
    annabellefranklinauthor

    I love this word, and the feeling it conjures.

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks Annabelle!
      I’m glad you liked it 🙂

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  4. Bregje Avatar
    Bregje

    Another great word! This one shouldn’t be to hard to remember and to implement somewhere…

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks Bregje!
      I hope you find a way to use it 🙂

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  5. Indah Susanti Avatar
    Indah Susanti

    Thank you so much! I like the idea of this post – as a non native speaker, I need to know more about English words. And I love the icon of Word of the Week 😉 It is very creative!

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks Indah, that’s really encouraging to know 🙂
      And I feel the same! Being a non-native speaker of English myself, I feel this feature will go long way in helping people like us who are objective enough to accept this fact and learn more!
      OMG! Thanks a lot for mentioning it… I worked really hard and I guess you’re the only person who really noticed it 😀 *blush* ❤

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  6. mihrank Avatar
    mihrank

    wow – elegant – precise – strong method to share a clear forward message!

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    1. Heena Rathore P. Avatar
      Heena Rathore P.

      Thanks a lot Mihran! 🙂

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  7. Molly Mortensen Avatar
    Molly Mortensen

    I like the new image thingy! I’ve heard of this word before. 🙂 It’s a cool one though. I like the feeling it invokes.

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