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palingenesis.

Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.

12 characters5 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/Received-Pronunciation/ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnəsəs/General-American/ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnɪsiːz/Received-Pronunciation/ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnəsiz/General-American
  1. Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.

    also · figuratively · uncountable
  2. Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this. The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.

    also · countable · figuratively · uncountable
  3. Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this. Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul.

    also · countable · figuratively · historical · uncountable
  4. The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.

    historical · obsolete · uncountable
  5. The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.

    uncountable
Where this word comes from

Probably a variant of palingenesia + -genesis (suffix meaning ‘origin; production’). Palingenesia is a learned borrowing from Late Latin palingenesia (“rebirth; regeneration”), from Koine Greek παλιγγενεσία (palingenesía, “rebirth”), from Ancient Greek πᾰ́λῐν (pắlĭn, “again, anew, once more”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to turn (end-over-end); to revolve around; to dwell, sojourn”)) + γένεσις (génesis, “creation; manner of birth; origin, source”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). By surface analysis, palin- + genesis. Sense 2 (“apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species”) is from German Palingenesis; while sense 3 (“regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks”) is from Swedish palingenes. Both are derived from the Greek word: see above. The plural form is probably from palingenesis + Latin genesēs (a plural form of genesis).

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