Avatar vs Rebirth - What's the difference?
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In Hinduism the incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.
The physical embodiment of an idea or concept; a personification.
* 1886 , Robert Louis Stevenson, dedicatory letter to Kidnapped [contrasting the historical Alan Breac with his incarnation in the novel].
(computing, or, gaming) A digital representation or handle of a person or being; often, it can take on any of various forms, as a participant chooses. i.e. 3D, animated, photo, sketch of a person or a person's alter ego, sometimes used in a virtual world or virtual chat room.
* 1992 (Neal Stephenson), (Snow Crash)
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Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.
* 1989 , Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality , page 35:
Revival, reinvigoration.
* 2009 , Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century :
Spiritual renewal.
* 2000 , Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments , page 132:
* 2011 , Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ , page 233:
As nouns the difference between avatar and rebirth
is that avatar is in Hinduism the incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu while rebirth is reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.avatar
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* avatara (rare) * Avator (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- And honest Alan, who was a grim fire-eater in his day, has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid...
- The people are pieces of software called avatars . They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.
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rebirth
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(en noun)- A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgit? which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes,
- And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before,
- The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.
- Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.