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

Noun

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

Karma Sentence Examples

  • This is totally karma, she told herself angrily.

  • Or maybe it was all her fault, created by bad karma she built up when she was some crazy deity in a past life she had no memory of.

  • I hope I'm around to see karma coming back on you.

  • In India, before Buddhism, conflicting and contradictory views prevailed as to the precise mode of action of Karma; and we find this confusion reflected in Buddhist theory.

  • Abby was so confident in the reality of karma that she did nothing without thinking about how it could affect her in her next life.

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Words Starting With

KKAKAR

Words Ending With

AMARMA

Unscrambles

karma

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