SPIRITUALISTIC Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

spiritualistic

adjective

Definition of spiritualistic

as in mystical

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Belugas are beautiful, mystical creatures; anyone proximate to them would feel their loss acutely.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2026
Directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, the story follows around two best friends who get stranded in a mystical world.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of mystical

Adjective

Rumi is also the name of a very famous 13th-century Persian poet and mystic.

— Sarah Scott, Parents, 24 Sep. 2026
The mystic whine of Christine Ott and Mathieu Gabry’s score carries us into a hidden world of ancient Thai deities living inside the mountain’s caves and tunnels.

— Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of mystic

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Lee’s lines have the intimacy and metaphysical heft of prayer; their elegant recursions and repetitions call to mind the cycles of life, death, and rebirth.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Dürrenmatt is more focused on moral than metaphysical questions.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of metaphysical

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Ghosts have gone more mainstream than vampires, no longer grouped with the other weird freaks— the zombies and the werewolves, that paranormal genre once ascribed only to lovers of the macabre.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Buckle up for Seven of Nine exploring a remote cluster of uncanny exoplanets, strange alien artifacts, long lost civilizations, and trippy paranormal anomalies.

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of paranormal

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