Karma Definition

kärmə
noun
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.
Webster's New World
The law or principle through which such influence is believed to operate.
American Heritage
Fate; destiny.
Webster's New World
A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling.
There's bad karma around the house today.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Karma

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Singular:
karma
Plural:
karmas

Origin of Karma

  • Loan from Sanskrit कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”), first attested in English in 1827.

    From Wiktionary

  • Sanskrit deed, action that has consequences, karma kwer- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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