different between metempsychosis vs samsara

English

Etymology

From Late Latin metempsychosis, from Koine Greek ???????????? (metempsúkh?sis).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?t?ms???k??s?s/

Noun

metempsychosis (countable and uncountable, plural metempsychoses)

1. Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. [from 16th c.]
   • 1891, Rudyard Kipling, "The Finest Story in the World":

     The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis, and a sound commercial education does not include Greek.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Metempsychosis, he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it. They used to believe you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for instance. What they called nymphs, for example.

   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:

     To go along assuming that Victoria the girl tourist and Veronica the sewer rat were one and the same V. was not at all to bring up any metempsychosis: only to affirm that his quarry fitted in with The Big One, the century’s master cabal.

   • 1994, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction.

Translations

Further reading

• metempsychosis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “metempsychosis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Alternative forms

• sa?s?ra

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?m?s???/

Noun

samsara (countable and uncountable, plural samsaras)

1. (philosophy, religion) In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
   • 1957, S. Radhakrishnan and C. A. Moore (eds.), A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, Princeton Univ. Press, page 38:

     Until we are released from the law of karma and reach moksha or deliverance, we will be in samsara or the time process.

Translations

See also

• reincarnation
• metempsychosis
• transmigration

References

• The Upanishads, abridged, translated and edited by Swami Nikhilananda, Harper Torchbooks, 1963, page 379.

Further reading

• samsara at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• asramas, assamar, samaras

Polish

Alternative forms

• sansara

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Noun

samsara f

1. (philosophy, religion) samsara

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sams?ra/
• Hyphenation: sam?sa?ra

Noun

samsàra f (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. (uncountable) samsara

Declension