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Soul vs Metempsychosis - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between soul and metempsychosis

is that soul is (religion|folklore) the spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality often believed to live on after the person's death while metempsychosis is transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.

As a verb soul

is (obsolete|transitive) to endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind or soul can be (obsolete) to afford suitable sustenance.

soul

English

(wikipedia soul)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).

Alternative forms

* sowl (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
  • * 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
  • "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • The spirit or essence of anything.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
  • Life, energy, vigor.
  • * Young
  • That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
  • (music) Soul music.
  • A person, especially as one among many.
  • An individual life.
  • Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
    * (English Citations of "soul")
    Derived terms
    * All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
  • (Chaucer)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
  • (Warner)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    metempsychosis

    Noun

    (metempsychoses)
  • Transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.
  • *, II.11:
  • Pythagoras'' borrowed ''Metempsychosis'' of the Ægyptians, but since, it hath been received of divers Nations, and especially of our ''Druides .
  • * 1891 , (Rudyard Kipling), "The Finest Story in the World":
  • The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had, in this case, been neglectful, and Charlie was looking, though that he did not know, where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began. Above all he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds; and he would retain that ignorance, for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek.
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), :
  • Metempsychosis , he said, is what the ancient Greeks called it. They used to believe you could be changed into an animal or a tree, for instance. What they called nymphs, for example.
  • * 1963 , (Thomas Pynchon), :
  • To go along assuming that Victoria the girl tourist and Veronica the sewer rat were one and the same V. was not at all to bring up any metempsychosis : only to affirm that his quarry fitted in with The Big One, the century’s master cabal.
  • * 1994 , (Will Self), (My Idea of Fun) :
  • Hers was a metempsychosis of novelty, her mind a vapid thing until animated by the next absolute conviction.