metempsychosis

American  

[muh-tem-suh-koh-sis, -temp-, met-uhm-sahy-] / məˌtɛm səˈkoʊ sɪs, -ˌtɛmp-, ˌmɛt əm saɪ- /

noun

plural

metempsychoses

1. the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.

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metempsychosis British  

/ ˌmɛtəmsaɪˈkəʊsɪs /

noun

1. the migration of a soul from one body to another

2. the entering of a soul after death upon a new cycle of existence in a new body either of human or animal form

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Other Word Forms

• metempsychic adjective
• metempsychosic adjective
• metempsychosical adjective
• metempsychosist noun

Etymology

Origin of metempsychosis

1580–90; < Late Latin < Greek, equivalent to metempsȳchō-, variant stem of metempsȳchoûsthai to pass from one body into another ( met-, em- ², psycho- ) + -sis -sis

Example Sentences

After Darth Vader cut down Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber duel, the latter returned via metempsychosis as a Force Ghost.

From Fox News • Mar. 23, 2019

As to how Maf came by his feeling for history or his fancy prose style, not to mention an impressive knowledge of the works of numerous philosophers, especially Plutarch, the answer, it seems, is metempsychosis.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2010

Japanese approved, last week, certain pious rites ordered and paid for at Kyoto by one Yozo Fuyubayashi, a rich seller of flypaper, a gentleman, and a devout believer in metempsychosis or transmigration of souls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Call me Lockman, and believe in the metempsychosis.

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

Moreover, metempsychosis in the Greek sense was never an Egyptian doctrine.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

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