palingenesis – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
palingenesis
n.
metempsychosis, passage of a soul from one body to another at the time of death
Palingenesis
Palingenesis (; or
palingenesia) is a concept of rebirth or re-creation, used in various contexts in
philosophy,
theology,
politics, and
biology. Its meaning stems from Greek
palin, meaning
again, and
genesis, meaning
birth. It is a central component of
Roger Griffin's analysis of Fascism as a fundamentally modernist ideology.
palingenesis
Noun
1. emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
(synonym) recapitulation
(antonym) cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis
(hypernym) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
Palingenesis
(n.)
Alt. of Palingenesy
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Palingenesis
Palingenesis [from Greek palin again + genesis becoming] One type of reimbodiment or self-generation, the transmission of an identic life in cyclically recurring phases, whereby at each transformation a new manifestation or result is produced. This result can also be called a palingenesis or new-becoming of the life-stream. The word is used similarly by Schopenhauer, who regards all phenomena as a continual and repeated palingenesis of one reality -- the Will. Transmigration, however, means the reappearance of a living entity in different forms adapted to specific conditions.
Palingenesis does not occur in Greek literature, as far as is known; palingenesia is used in the New Testament for spiritual regeneration. With the alchemists the word meant the artificial reproduction of the spectrum of a plant from its ashes. In biology palingenesis means reappearance of ancestral characteristics, instead of new characteristics (cenogenesis).
