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