Difference between Esoteric and Occult

ESOTERIC vs OCCULT: NOUN

Confidential; private.
Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application; often with mystical or religious connotations.
Understood only by a chosen few or an enlightened inner circle.
Marked by secrecy or privacy; private; select; confidential.
Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of discussions of technical topics and of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.
Not known by or suitable for the public; private.
Relating to or being a small group with specialized knowledge or interests.
Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle
Intended for or understood by only a small group, especially one with specialized knowledge or interests: : mysterious.

Detectable only by microscopic examination or chemical analysis, as a minute blood sample.
Beyond the realm of human comprehension; inscrutable.
Available only to the initiate; secret or mysterious: : mysterious.
Of, relating to, or dealing with supernatural or magical influences, agencies, or occurrences.
Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
Hidden and difficult to see
Hidden from view; concealed.
Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected
Those sciences of the Middle Ages which related to the supposed action or influence of occult qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic, necromancy, and astrology.
Those qualities whose effects only were observed, but the nature and relations of whose productive agencies were undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen.
Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
A line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan.
Hidden from the eye or the understanding; invisible; secret; concealed; unknown.
Esoteric.
Not accompanied by readily detectable signs or symptoms.

Literally, inner: originally applied to certain writings of Aristotle of a scientific, as opposed to a popular, character, and afterward to the secret or acroamatic teachings of Pythagoras; hence, in general, secret; intended to be communicated only to the initiated; profound.
In embryology, endoblastic. See the extract.

Beyond ordinary understanding
To cut off from view by the intervention of another body; hide; conceal; eclipse.
To undergo occultation; be hidden or concealed, as a star or the intermittent beam of light from a lighthouse.
Not apparent upon mere inspection, nor deducible from what is so apparent, but discoverable only by experimentation; relating to what is thus undiscoverable by mere inspection: opposed to manifest.
Mysterious; transcendental; beyond the bounds of natural knowledge.
Synonyms Latent, Covert, etc. (see secret), unrevealed, recondite, abstruse, veiled, shrouded, mystic, cabalistic.

Dark, Obscure, Sibylline, Cryptical, Deep, Secret, Mysterious, Mystic, Cabalistic, Occult, Cryptic, Mystical, Recondite, Arcane, Abstruse

Occultist, Shadow, Bribe, Stealth, Disguised, Hidden, Covert, Clandestine, Eclipse, Secret, Mysterious, Esoteric, Mystic, Mystical, Supernatural

Dark, Obscure, Sibylline, Cryptical, Deep, Secret, Mysterious, Mystic, Cabalistic, Occult, Cryptic, Mystical, Recondite, Arcane, Abstruse

Paranormal, Occultist, Shadow, Stealth, Disguised, Hidden, Covert, Clandestine, Eclipse, Secret, Mysterious, Esoteric, Mystic, Mystical, Supernatural

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And esoteric cosmology is the occult and esoteric teachings that involve elaborate cosmologies.

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