Cult vs. Occult

Cultnoun

A group or sect of people with a religious, philosophical or cultural identity, often existing on the margins of society or exploitative towards its members.

Cultnoun

Devotion to a saint.

Cultnoun

A religion that evolved out of another religion but has become a different religion through developing a radically different theology.

Cultnoun

(informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.

Cultadjective

Of or relating to a cult.

Cultadjective

Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.

Cultnoun

Attentive care; homage; worship.

Cultnoun

A system of religious belief and worship.

Cultnoun

A system of intense religious veneration of a particular person, idea, or object, especially one considered spurious or irrational by traditional religious bodies; as, the Moonie cult.

Cultnoun

The group of individuals who adhere to a cult (senses 2 or 3).

Cultnoun

A strong devotion or interest in a particular person, idea or thing without religious associations, or the people holding such an interest; as, the cult of James Dean; the cult of personality in totalitarian societies.

Cultnoun

adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices

Cultnoun

an interest followed with exaggerated zeal;

Cultnoun

a system of religious beliefs and rituals;

Cultnoun

a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object

Cultnoun

a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or as imposing excessive control over members

Cultnoun

a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular thing

Cultnoun

a person or thing that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society

Cult

In modern English, a cult is a social group that is defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or by its common interest in a particular personality, object, or goal. This sense of the term is controversial, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and academia, and has also been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.

Occultverb

To cover or hide from view.

Occultverb

To dissimulate, conceal, or obfuscate.

Occultadjective

(medicine) Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected.

Occultadjective

Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.

Occultadjective

Esoteric.

Occultnoun

Supernatural affairs.

Occultadjective

Hidden from the eye or the understanding; invisible; secret; concealed; unknown.

Occultverb

To eclipse; to hide from sight.

Occultnoun

supernatural forces and events and beings collectively;

Occultnoun

occult practices and techniques;

Occultverb

cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention;

Occultverb

become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished;

Occultverb

hide from view;

Occultadjective

hidden and difficult to see;

Occultadjective

having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding;

Occultnoun

mystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena

Occultadjective

involving or relating to mystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena

Occultadjective

communicated only to the initiated; esoteric

Occultadjective

(of a disease or process) not accompanied by readily discernible signs or symptoms

Occultadjective

(of blood) abnormally present, e.g. in faeces, but detectable only chemically or microscopically.

Occultverb

cut off from view by interposing something

Occultverb

(of a celestial body) conceal (an apparently smaller body) from view by passing or being in front of it

Occult

The occult, in the broadest sense, is a category of supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of religion and science, encompassing such phenomena involving otherworldly agency as mysticism, spirituality, and magic. It can also refer to supernatural ideas like extra-sensory perception and parapsychology.