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Yogi vs Yoni - What's the difference?

yogi | yoni |

As nouns the difference between yogi and yoni

is that yogi is a devotee or adherent of yoga while yoni is the female sexual organs, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.

As an adjective yogi

is attributive of lang=en.

yogi

English

(wikipedia yogi)

Alternative forms

* ioggue

Noun

(en noun)
  • (yoga) A devotee or adherent of yoga.
  • * 2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 30:
    • To this day, yogins find that these disciplines, which have measurable physical and neurological effects, evoke a sense of calm, harmony and equanimity that is comparable to the effect of music.
  • * 2012 , Lisa Allardice, The Guardian , 30 Mar 2012:
    • There is a special healthy menu, and the yogis can all eat together if they choose, but there's none of the birdseed-and-bulgur-wheat diet of a typical retreat.

    Related terms

    * yogini

    Adjective

    (-)
    • Gurdjieff connects this type of breathing with yogi breathing.
    It's a yogi trick of some sort.
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    yoni

    English

    (wikipedia yoni)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The female sexual organs, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.
  • * 2004 , Johanna Wikoff, Deborah Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kama Sutra , Alpha Books 2004, p. 242:
    • Stroke your partner's thighs and caress her breasts as you make love to her yoni with your mouth and tongue.
  • * 2001 , David Adams Leeming, A Dictionary of Asian Mythology , Oxford 2001, p. 205:
    • In Hinduism [...] and Tantrism [...], the yoni is the generative organ of the Goddess.
  • * 1997 , David R Kinsley, Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine , University of California 1997, p. 235:
    • The goddess blesses him by placing his li?gam in her yoni .

    Derived terms

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