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Ātman

Ātman is the alternative form of atman.

Meaning of atman

Noun

atman (plural atmans)

  1. (Hinduism, Jainism) The true self of an individual beyond identification with worldly phenomena, the essence of an individual, an infinitesimal part of Brahman.
    • However, we have been led beyond this to a threefold analysis which in its western version is body-soul-spirit and in its eastern version body-mind-atman.1994, John Hick, Death and Eternal Life, page 450

Forms of Ātman

pluralĀtmans

Questions about Ātman

What is Ātman the alternative form of?
Ātman is the alternative form of atman.

Words near Ātman in the dictionary

  1. Ārya
  2. Āryamarga
  3. Āryas
  4. Āryāvarta
  5. Āstīka
  6. Ātman
  7. Ātmans
  8. āā
  9. āśram
  10. āśrams
  11. ă

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ātman (page history and authors); atman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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