charisma

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others

   The leader had a lot of charisma.

Simplified etymology

Charisma came through ecclesiastical Latin from Greek kharisma, derived from kharis, meaning “favour” or “grace.” Its first recorded sense was “a divinely conferred talent.” Since the 1930s, the Charismatic religious movement has returned to this original sense.

From the common noun charisma, from Ancient Greek χάρισμα (khárisma).

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