noun
- The definition of karma is the destiny that you earn through your actions and behavior.
When you behave kindly, this is an example of a situation where you earn good karma that will result in good things happening to you in the future.
Kindness creates good karma.
karma
noun
- Buddhism, Hinduism the totality of a person's actions in any one of the successive states of that person's existence, thought of as determining the fate of the next stage
- loosely fate; destiny
Origin of karma
Sanskrit a deed, act, fate ; from Indo-European base an unverified form kwer-, to make, form from source Welsh pryd, shape, timeRelated Forms:
- karmic
adjective
karma
noun
- Hinduism & Buddhism a. The totality of a person's actions and conduct during successive incarnations, regarded as causally influencing his or her destiny.b. The law or principle through which such influence is believed to operate.
- Fate or destiny resulting from one's previous actions: “[The pitcher] had mostly avoided damage through the first four innings despite putting at least two runners on base three times, but he could not hold back the bad karma any longer” (Ben Shpigel).
- Informal A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling: There's bad karma around the house today.
Origin of karma
Sanskrit, deed, action that has consequences, karma; see kwer- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- kar′mic
adjective
karma
Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural karmas)
- (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism) The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
- A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.
- (uncommon) A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere.
Origin
Loan from Sanskrit कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”), first attested in English in 1827.
