Palingenesis Definition

pălĭn-jĕnĭ-sĭs
palingeneses
noun
A new birth; regeneration.
Webster's New World
The doctrine of transmigration of souls; metempsychosis.
American Heritage

Metempsychosis.

Webster's New World
That phase in the development of an individual plant or animal which supposedly repeats the evolutionary history of the taxonomic group to which it belongs; recapitulation.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Palingenesis

Noun

Singular:
palingenesis
Plural:
palingeneses

Origin of Palingenesis

  • Greek palin again kwel-1 in Indo-European roots –genesis

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

  • From the Ancient Greek πάλιν (palin, “again") +"Ž -genesis.

    From Wiktionary

Palingenesis Sentence Examples

  • Ilaeckel and Fritz Muller) palingenesis " has been used for the exact reproduction of ancestral features by inheritance, as opposed to " kenogenesis " (Gr.

  • New institutions spring up, upon which thought acts, and in and through which it even draws nearer to a final unity, a palingenesis.

  • The word " palingenesis " or rather " palingenesia " may be traced back to the Stoics, who used the term for the continual re-creation of the universe by the Demiurgus (Creator) after its absorption into himself.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAL

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SISSIS

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Words Starting With P and Ending With S

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