occultness

This definition accurately defines the kind of occultness the world has attributed to Africa.

Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition December 13-15, 1895. John Wesley Edward 1896

First, the fact that others regularly interpret the activity of an individual as “meaningless” or “crazy” is not proof that it is, nor even proof that meaning will have to be sought by reverting to the kind of extended symbolic interpretation sometimes attempted in psychoanalysis.1 Second, the occultness of an act is not intrinsic to it, and, of course, must be related to some group that so defines it.

Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

What makes it more intense is the element of mystery and creepy occultness associated with it.

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