Mystic vs Adept - What's the difference?
mystic | adept |
Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.
Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.
* Emerson
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
* 1837-1839 ,
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
* 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
As adjectives the difference between mystic and adept
is that mystic is of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical while adept is well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.As nouns the difference between mystic and adept
is that mystic is someone who practices mysticism while adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.mystic
English
Alternative forms
* mystick (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- a mystic dance
- Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man.
References
* * * *adept
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
Synonyms
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* ineptNoun
(en noun)- When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
- Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.