noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The belief that beings are reincarnated in a new form after death. uncountable
2. 2
   a doctrine that on the death of the body the soul migrates to or is born again in another body wordnet

Etymology

From reincarnation + -ism.

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