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nirwana

nirwana is the obsolete form of nirvana.

Meaning of nirvana

Noun

nirvana (countable and uncountable, plural nirvanas)

  1. Complete cessation of dukkha; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
    Synonyms:
    nibbana
  2. (colloquial, non-Buddhist) State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure or peace; a state of universal perfection and bliss.
    • Welcome to this celebration of legal abortion. I wish January 22 meant more than that. The truth is that we are not winging our way to a state of nirvana for reproductive rights.1988 February 7, Stephanie Poggi, “What's Choice Got To Do With It?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 5

Questions about nirwana

What is nirwana the obsolete form of?
Nirwana is the obsolete form of nirvana.

Words near nirwana in the dictionary

  1. nirvana fallacies
  2. nirvana fallacy
  3. nirvanas
  4. nirvanic
  5. nirvanol
  6. nirwana
  7. nis
  8. nisab
  9. Nisaba
  10. Nisaea
  11. Nisaean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nirwana (page history and authors); nirvana (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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