Numinosity

Numinosity is the relationship between other people, places, and things and the individual. This concept seems to be the combination of the words numen and numinous. Numen is defined as a spiritual force or influence that is often identified with a natural place, phenomenon, or object. Whereas numinous is described as supernatural and mysterious; filled with a sense of the presence of divinity (holy); appealing to the higher emotions or the aesthetic sense (spiritual). Therefore, after objects or things have acquired, or been given, an emotional or spiritual force they have obtained numinosity toward the individual or people.

Examples

 * They are, at the same time, both images and emotions [...] When there is merely the image, then there is simply a word-picture of little consequence. But by being charged with emotion, the image gains numinosity (or psychic energy); it becomes dynamic, and consequences of some kind must flow from it.
 * The mere words you use will be empty and valueless. They gain life and meaning only when you try to take into account their numinosity -- i.e., their relationship to the living individual.
 * "Man and His Symbols", Carl G. Jung, ISBN 0-385-05221-9.