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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the study of the supernatural;

2. a belief in supernatural powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Occultism \Oc*cult"ism\, n. 1. A certain Oriental system of theosophy. --A. P. Sinnett. [1913 Webster] 2. Belief in occult powers or in supernatural forces other than the God of traditional religions, such as in magic, necromancy, alchemy, and astrology. [PJC] 3. The study and alleged use of supernatural agencies as in magic, astrology, witchcraft, alchemy, necromancy, spiritualism (communication with the dead), and fortune-telling. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

occultism n 1: the study of the supernatural 2: a belief in supernatural powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "occultism": bodilessness, ghostliness, immateriality, immaterialness, impalpability, imponderability, incorporeality, incorporeity, inextension, intangibility, nonexteriority, occult phenomena, otherworldliness, psychical research, psychicism, psychics, psychism, shadowiness, spirit world, spirituality, spirituousness, supernaturalism, the occult, unearthliness, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness, unworldliness