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METEMPSYCHOSIS (metempsychoses)
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Irregular inflected form: metempsychoses
Dictionary entry overview: What does metempsychosis mean?
• METEMPSYCHOSIS (noun)
The noun METEMPSYCHOSIS has 1 sense:
1. after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body
Familiarity information: METEMPSYCHOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
metempsychosis; rebirth
Hypernyms ("metempsychosis" is a kind of...):
phenomenon (any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning)
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