karma

kar·ma

Kindness creates good karma.

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.

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karma

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

Sans, a deed, act, fate from Indo-European base an unverified form kwer-, to make, form from source Welsh pryd, shape, time

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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 k^wer- in Indo-European roots.

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kar′mic
adjective

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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.

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