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metempsychosis

/mɛtəmsʌɪˈkəʊsɪs/

metempsychosis noun: transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.

Noun

metempsychosis (countable and uncountable, plural metempsychoses)

  1. Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
    • Pythagoras borrowed Metempsychosis of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our Druides[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 11, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the...1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Finest Story in the World

metempsychosis meaning in Arabic

metempsychosis in Arabic

Transmigration of the soul
تَنَاسُخ tanāsuḵ

Examples of metempsychosis in a sentence

  • Metempsychosis, he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
  • Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction.1994, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

Forms of metempsychosis

pluralmetempsychoses

Origin of metempsychosis

From Late Latin metempsychosis, from Koine Greek μετεμψύχωσις (metempsúkhōsis).

Words formed from metempsychosis

Questions about metempsychosis

What does metempsychosis mean?
Metempsychosis means transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
What is metempsychosis in Arabic?
Metempsychosis in Arabic is تَنَاسُخ (tanāsuḵ). See Metempsychosis meaning in Arabic.
How do you use metempsychosis in a sentence?
Metempsychosis, he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it.
What part of speech is metempsychosis?
Metempsychosis is a noun.
How do you pronounce metempsychosis?
Metempsychosis is pronounced /mɛtəmsʌɪˈkəʊsɪs/ (UK).
What is the plural of metempsychosis?
The plural of metempsychosis is metempsychoses.

Words near metempsychosis in the dictionary

  1. metempsychosed
  2. metempsychoses
  3. metempsychosic
  4. metempsychosical
  5. metempsychosing
  6. metempsychosis
  7. metempsychosist
  8. metempsychosists
  9. metempsychosize
  10. metempsychosized
  11. metempsychosizes

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