Numen

Divine potency emanating from a deity, person, or thing and sometimes the divine part of a deified person.

Numen ("presence", plural numina) is a Latin term for the power of either a deity or a spirit that is present in places and objects, in the Roman religion. The many names for Italic gods may obscure this sense of a numinous presence in all the seemingly mundane actions of the natural world. The word was also used in the imperial cult of ancient Rome, to refer to the guardian-spirit, 'godhead' or divine power of a living emperor—in other words, a means of worshiping a living emperor without literally calling him a god. The word numen is also used by sociologists to refer to the idea of magical power residing in an object, particularly when writing about ideas in the western tradition. When used in this sense, numen is nearly synonymous with mana. However, some authors reserve use of mana for ideas about magic from Polynesia and southeast Asia. Etymologically the Latin word numen originally and literally meant "nodding". It has the sense of inherent vitality and presiding, and was also associated with the terms for "command" or "divine majesty". The importance of nodding, in relation to commands and divine majesty, stems from the belief that Jupiter, the king and ruler of the gods of Olympus in Roman mythology, when he made a final and unquestionable decision, nodded his head, thereby enacting his ruling.

by ♫ Highway to Hell ♫ August 24, 2010

Numen

Bitch-ass nature spirit shackled to either a place, an object or an intangible concept.
Functionally identical to the Japanese idea of a Kami.

Yo I'm too much of a faggot to admit how identical my ideas are to pop fantasy or japansese tradition so I'm using words like Numen instead of kami.

by Lord_nether October 30, 2021

Numen

A word used in the novel Illuminatus! to describe ordinary people.
Used by the fictional fraction 'Weishauptian Illuminati'.
It means dumb and easy to manipulate.

He is such a fucking Numen. Not even immune to the bavarian asshattest of telling wrong directions.

by Numenmann December 18, 2021

Numen

An autophage/human hybrid, humanity distilled, created by a zombie bite, made to keep humanity from going extinct. Originating from the game series Dead island, specifically Dead Island 2

Ruben calls us numen, we are the endpoint..

by Vortexkortexx October 10, 2025

Sōlum Nūmen

(noun) Sōlum Nūmen: meaning The (Holy) Name Alone; a soteriological theological view stressing the all-inclusive singular-sufficiency of the Holy Name of God for salvation contrasting with the 3, 5, or 7 Protestant Christian “solae”s

The Libera Catholick Union’s Sōlum Nūmen soteriology is similar to the Gaudiya Vaishnavism view of God’s Holy Name.

by MinistryOfDEW July 4, 2021

laughin jokin numbnuts

Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts is the name given to LJN by James Rolfe, the Angry Video Game Nerd. James is a classic game reviewer with a low tolerance for bad games and LJN has consistently released poor titles.

I wanted to buy "Back to the Future" for the Nintendo Entertainment System until I found out it was a Laughin Jokin Numbnuts game.

by One more person December 17, 2018

Nomenblature

The act of mispronouncing words that sound very similar to the actual word.
The Bastardization of pronouncing words.

" I heard that the Vietmamese are legalizing psilocybum shortly " .

" alumimum has a low tensile strength in the cold artic"
Man what is this dummy talking about ? He has no sense of nomenclature. The way he's speaking its nomenblature.

by Tony parsnips March 10, 2020