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Transmigration vs Transmutation - What's the difference?

transmigration | transmutation |

As nouns the difference between transmigration and transmutation

is that transmigration is departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration while transmutation is change, alteration.

transmigration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
  • The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis.

    • Related terms

    * transmigrable * transmigrant * transmigrate * transmigrator * transmigratory

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    transmutation

    English

    (wikipedia transmutation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Change, alteration.
  • The conversion of one thing into something else; transformation.
  • (alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base metal into gold.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 261:
    • The transmutation of metals was secondary to the main aim, which was the spiritual transformation of the adept.
  • (physics) The actual transformation of one element into another by a nuclear reaction.