Transmigration

noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the passing of a soul into another body after death wordnet
  3. 3
    A change from one state of existence to another. countable, uncountable

    "Any great change is like cold water in winter—one shrinks from the first plunge; and a lover may be excused who shivers a little at the transmigration into a husband."

  4. 4
    The movement of a soul from one body to another after death. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonyms: metempsychosis, reincarnation (both broadly synonymous)"

Synonyms

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anabolismavatarcatabolismcatalysiscommunicationconduction

Example

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"Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrātiō.

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