What does "tamas" mean?

One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.

Tamas

name, noun

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Noun

1
One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive. uncountable

Proper Noun

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hungarian Tamás.