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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mys·ti·cism /ˈmɪstəˌsɪzəm/
 神祕,神祕教,神祕論

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mys·ti·cism n.
 1. Obscurity of doctrine.
 2. Eccl. Hist. The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.
 3. Philos. The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 mysticism
      n 1: a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate
           reality [syn: religious mysticism]
      2: obscure or irrational thought