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metempsychosis
[ muh-tem-suh-koh-sis, -temp-, met-uhm-sahy- ]
noun
- the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
metempsychosis
/ ˌmɛtəmsaɪˈkəʊsɪs /
noun
- the migration of a soul from one body to another
- the entering of a soul after death upon a new cycle of existence in a new body either of human or animal form
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Derived Forms
- ˌmetempsyˈchosist, noun
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Other Words From
- met·em·psy·chic [met-, uh, m-, sahy, -kik], me·tempsy·chosic me·tempsy·chosi·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of metempsychosis1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of metempsychosis1
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Example Sentences
Youth as it opens out discloses The sinister metempsychosis Of lilies dead and turned to roses Red as an angry dawn.
This connects Buddhism with the doctrine of metempsychosis; a doctrine which the incarnations of Brahminism also suggest.
Before leaving the problem of the soul Ibn Daud devotes a word to showing that metempsychosis is impossible.
For nine years the late Patarah Prabhu existed under this new shape, carrying out the laws of metempsychosis.
Does Plato take metempsychosis seriously, as one would be tempted to believe after reading the Republic?
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