Meaning and example
evincing the presence of a deity
A numinous wood
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.006 places numinous in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 49.8% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 49.8%
difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
- Known by
- 49.9%
the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- Known by
- 50%
the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
- Known by
- 50.4%
an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
- Known by
- 48.8%
lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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