different between veneration vs yoni

English

Etymology

From Middle French vénération, from Old French veneracion, from Latin veneratio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?n???e???n/
• Hyphenation: ven?e?ra?tion

Noun

veneration (countable and uncountable, plural venerations)

1. The act of venerating or the state of being venerated.
3. Profound reverence, respect or awe.
   • 1848, w:William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Bradbury and Evans, page 2:

     In Miss Jemima's eyes an autograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.

4. Religious zeal, idolatry or devotion.

Translations

Anagrams

• Evertonian, enervation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ???? (yoni).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??ni/
• Rhymes: -??ni

Noun

yoni (plural yonis)

1. The vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.
   • 2004, Johanna Wikoff, Deborah Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra, Alpha Books 2004, p. 242:

     Stroke your partner's thighs and caress her breasts as you make love to her yoni with your mouth and tongue.

   • 2001, David Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Asian Mythology, Oxford 2001, p. 205:

     In Hinduism [...] and Tantrism [...], the yoni is the generative organ of the Goddess.

   • 1997, David R Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine, University of California 1997, p. 235:

     The goddess blesses him by placing his li?gam in her yoni.

Derived terms

• yonic
• yoni egg
• yoni massage

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?.ni/

Noun

yoni m (plural yonis)

1. yoni

Javanese

Romanization

yoni

1. Romanization of ?????

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

yoni ?

1. womb
2. origin