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the goosebumps you get when a place seems to know you're there.
means a divine or spiritual power thought to inhabit an object, place, or person, and by extension the felt presence of that power.
from from latin numen, literally a nod of the head — the gesture of a god assenting or commanding, which the romans took as proof that a will greater than yours was in the room.
root gestureoriginally just meant a nod
roman beliefevery grove, spring, threshold had one
adjective formnuminous, coined much later by otto
not personifieda force, not necessarily a named god