Usually means: Evoking awe through the divine.
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  1. numinous: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. numinous: Merriam-Webster
  3. numinous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. numinous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. numinous: Collins English Dictionary
  6. numinous: Vocabulary.com
  7. numinous: Wordnik
  8. numinous: Wiktionary
  9. numinous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. numinous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. numinous: Dictionary.com
  12. numinous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Numinous (disambiguation), Numinous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. numinous: Rhymezone
  15. numinous: FreeDictionary.org
  16. numinous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. numinous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. numinous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. numinous: A Word A Day
  2. numinous: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Numinous: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See numinousness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a divinity.
adjective:  Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-inspiring.

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