In Das Heilige (1917), translated as The Idea of the Holy, Rudolf Otto coined “numinous” from the Latin numen, divine power. He meant the non-rational core of religious experience: the feeling of a presence wholly other than the self, before which one is struck with awe and yet drawn in longing.
Numinous
Rudolf Otto’s word for the holy as wholly other: awe-inspiring, mysterious and fascinating.
Also: the holy