apophatic

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
2. adjective That passively defines a thing by describing what is not characteristic of it.

Similar words

denegative negatival anhypostatic apodictic negatory apostatic abnegative anapodeictic nonphilosophic aphilosophical

Often followed by

theology tradition and way mysticism approach language or discourse