Arcane

Etymology
From arcanus: < arcere:, arca:.

Adjective

 * 1) Understood by only a few; obscure; requiring secret or mysterious knowledge.
 * 2) * 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
 * A “signature” was placed on all things by God to indicate their affinities — but it was hidden, hence the search for arcane knowledge. Knowing was guessing and interpreting, not observing or demonstrating.

Synonyms

 * esoteric

Related terms

 * arcana

Thesaurus
abstract; abstruse; cabalistic; censored; classified; close; closed; concealed; cryptic; dark; deep; eerie; enigmatic; esoteric; extramundane; extraterrestrial; fey; hermetic; hidden; hush-hush; hypernormal; hyperphysical; impenetrable; inscrutable; latent; mysterious; mystic; mystical; numinous; occult; otherworldly; preterhuman; preternatural; preternormal; pretersensual; profound; psychic; recondite; restricted; secret; smothered; spiritual; stifled; superhuman; supernatural; supernormal; superphysical; supersensible; supersensual; suppressed; supramundane; supranatural; top secret; transcendental; transmundane; ulterior; unaccountable; unbreatheable; uncanny; under security; under wraps; undisclosable; undisclosed; undivulgable; undivulged; unearthly; unguessed; unhuman; unknowable; unrevealable; unrevealed; unspoken; untellable; untold; unutterable; unuttered; unwhisperable; unworldly; weird

Translations

 * Bulgarian: тайнствен, езотеричен
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:


 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:, secreto, misterioso
 * Turkish: esrarlı, gizemli, saklı

Anagrams

 * arance
 * carena
 * carnea