APOPHATICALLY is a word not in any on-line dictionaries I checked, but useful nonetheless. It means discovering by the via negativa of saying what something is not, rather than what it is.

In the apophatic (or negative) way ... one approaches God by stripping away all concepts, definitions, and adjectives which would seem to "confine" the infinity of divinity in order to stand in utterly open prayer before the Holy Trinity. ( "Connections to the World of Orthodoxy" )

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