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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
charisma
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
personal
▪ But Bolden was a riveting performer of personal charisma and crowd-pleasing musical power.
▪ But not all choreographers had the means, resolute strength or personal charisma to forge such instruments of self-expression.
▪ The faint aroma of stale mackerel still hung around and did nothing for our personal charisma either.
▪ Nearly that many are devotees of Hitler's personal charisma.
▪ The shoguns themselves lacked the personal charisma of their early predecessors and divisions within the Bakufu hierarchy and Tokugawa followers increased.
▪ Such power may derive from an individual's physical strength, their economic resources, position, expertise, personal charisma etc.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Few Presidents have had the charisma of Kennedy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everything suggests, moreover, that Sereny has a special and patient charisma.
▪ He had little of Beatty's on-screen charisma - yet.
▪ Her charisma and warmth made her the object of many a student crush, and Margarett was no exception.
▪ His lack of charisma and often unhappy persona will contrast sharply with Mandela's awesome humility, humour and stern paternalism.
▪ Rice had a powerful and original vision, and the charisma to instill that vision in others.
▪ Some say his lack of charisma will keep him from becoming president.
▪ The horse appears to have great presence and charisma.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
charisma

"gift of leadership, power of authority," c.1930, from German, used in this sense by Max Weber (1864-1920) in "Wirtschaft u. Gesellschaft" (1922), from Greek kharisma "favor, divine gift," from kharizesthai "to show favor to," from kharis "grace, beauty, kindness" (Charis was the name of one of the three attendants of Aphrodite) related to khairein "to rejoice at," from PIE root *gher- (5) "to desire, like" (see hortatory). More mundane sense of "personal charm" recorded by 1959.\n

\nEarlier, the word had been used in English with a sense of "grace, talent from God" (1875), directly from Latinized Greek; and in the form charism (plural charismata) it is attested with this sense in English from 1640s. Middle English, meanwhile, had karisme "spiritual gift, divine grace" (c.1500).

Wiktionary
charisma

n. 1 Personal charm or magnetism 2 (context Christianity English) An extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit 3 The ability to influence without the use of logic.

WordNet
charisma

n. a personal attractiveness that enables you to influence others [syn: personal appeal, personal magnetism]

Wikipedia
Charisma (horse)

Charisma (1972 - 2003) was a horse ridden by New Zealander Mark Todd. Charisma won many competitions in the sport of eventing. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest event horses ever to have competed. He stood .

Charisma (disambiguation)

Charisma is either compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others, or a divinely conferred power or talent.

Charisma or Charismatic may also refer to:

Charisma (film)

is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Koji Yakusho.

The film is about a dispute between a number of people about a unique but possibly toxic tree growing in an unnamed forest. The film is largely seen from the point of view of Goro Yabuike ( Koji Yakusho), a police negotiator who has been relieved of his duties following his failure to prevent the death of an important hostage. He stands in the middle of the conflicting opinions about the future of the tree, and has to decide which course to commit himself to.

Charisma (album)

Charisma is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan featuring performances by Morgan, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers and Billy Higgins, recorded on September 29, 1966, but not released on the Blue Note label until 1969.

Charisma (magazine)

Charisma (also known as Charisma + Christian Life) is a monthly Christian magazine based in Lake Mary, Florida, a suburb of Orlando. It is aimed at Pentecostals and charismatics. Its perspective is influenced by the charismatic revivalism and other contemporary streams of charismatic Christianity such as the Toronto Blessing, International House of Prayer, and the Apostolic-Prophetic movement.

Charisma

The term charisma (; pl. charismata, adj. charismatic) has two senses: (1) compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others, (2) a divinely conferred power or talent. As regards sense 1, scholars in political science, psychology, and management use the term "charisma" to describe a particular type of leader having "symbolic leader influence rooted in emotional and ideological foundations". For some theological usages the term is rendered charism, with a meaning the same as sense 2. Since the 1950s, the term has become widely used, with varying meanings, in religion, the social sciences, the media, and throughout Western societies.

Charisma (gastropod)

Charisma (gastropod) is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Usage examples of "charisma".

But unlike Tarkin, Sulamar gave orders that had no merit, and the general had none of the personal power or ironhard charisma Tarkin had displayed.

And from the neurologicians: configuration, face dancing, ritual analysis, mythopoesis, charisma, and outer theatre.

Chenzeme tissue, so that Nikko had some understanding of the charismata.

How on earth could a woman hope to hold her own against that kind of charisma, coupled with what looked like a shrewd understanding of both temperamental writers and women?

He encourages them to idolise him, to adore him, to be awed by him, to admire his deeds and capabilities, to learn to blindly trust and obey him, in short to surrender to his charisma and to become submerged in his folies-de-grandeur.

They could sense the charismata only through the mucous membranes of their noses and mouths.

Tall and powerful in his silver battle armor chased with gold, he positively radiated strength and wisdom, and his charisma almost outshone the overhead lights.

Its parasitic tendrils lived in her brain, opening her to the influence of his charismata.

Julie remembered to one of those critical that turned it a human conglomerate when saying that Zachary Benedict had the magnetism animal of Sean youthful Connery, the talent of a Newman, the charisma of Costner, the machismo of a young person Eastwood, the smooth one sophistication of Warren Beatty, the versatility of Michael Douglas and the attractiveness of Harrison Ford.

His sensory system extended from the outer membrane of philosopher cells to the bioactive walls of this chamber, where glands synthesized the charismata of his moods.

Once, Nikko let slip that he'd learned the charismata from a "mating" with a Chenzeme ship.

Yet Lot had played similar games when he'd lived in the sky city of Silk, at Deception Well, using the charismata as his infiltrating weapon.

Most of the time he could manufacture the charismata that would blow away nascent feelings of loneliness, so that he didn't really miss her.

There was no evidence at all to back Nikko's claim that he'd learned the charismata from a mating with a Chenzeme ship.

Her voice trembled, and Lot felt a flush of soothing charismata rise from his sensory tears, though they couldn't touch her.