noun
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the experience of mystical union or direct communion with ultimate reality reported by mystics.
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practical experience without reference to scientific principles, mystical or theoretical experience.
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that part of mental faculty which can have conception or impression of something known, experienced or imagined; notion.
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empathy - a) the projection of one's own personality into the personality of another in order to understand the person better; ability to share in another's emotions, thoughts or feelings; b) the projection of one's own personality into an object, with the attribution to the object of one's own emotions, responses, etc.