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  2. Awe - Wikipedia

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    The term awe stems from the Old English word ege, meaning "terror, dread, awe," which may have arisen from the Greek word áchos, meaning "pain." [9] The word awesome originated from the word awe in the late 16th century, to mean "filled with awe." [10] The word awful also originated from the word awe, to replace the Old English word egeful ...

  3. Numinous - Wikipedia

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    Numinous (/ ˈ nj uː m ɪ n ə s /) means "arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring"; [1] also "supernatural" or "appealing to the aesthetic sensibility." The term was given its present sense by the German theologian and philosopher Rudolf Otto in his influential 1917 German book The Idea of the Holy .

  4. Sublime (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Simple English; سنڌي; کوردی ... the sublime inspires awe and veneration, ... was an excess of signifieds: meaning was always overdetermined. According to ...

  5. Feeling awe and wonder can be good for your mental health ...

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    Awe is that feeling you get when you experience something vast, ... In his research, the more awe-inspiring an experience shared by two people was, the more connected they felt to each other.

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    These humbling memorials, battlefields, and bases honor the memory and sacrifices made by countless veterans who fought to defend our freedom.

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    This morning’s top news stories focused on tragedy—the horrific shooting at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee—and triumph at the The post The Most Awe-Inspiring News Story You Might Have ...

  8. Sublime (literary) - Wikipedia

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    So the English Romantics began to view the sublime as referring to a "realm of experience beyond the measurable" that is beyond rational thought, that arises chiefly from the terrors and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. [9]:

  9. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    An apocryphal story relates how Charles II (or sometimes Queen Anne) described St Paul's Cathedral (using contemporaneous English) as "awful, pompous, and artificial", with the meaning (rendered in modern English) of "awe-inspiring, majestic, and ingeniously designed."