palingenesis

Meaning

1. (also, figuratively, uncountable) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
2. (also, countable, figuratively, uncountable) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
3. (also, countable, figuratively, historical, uncountable) Rebirth; regeneration; (countable) an instance of this.
4. (historical, obsolete, uncountable) The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.
5. (uncountable) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.

Opposite of

caenogenesis

Synonyms

recapitulation

rectification

regeneration

actification

paleogenesis

regenerative action

reclaiming action

Translations

palingenesi

palingenesia

palingenesia

ruh göçü

ruh sıçraması

tenasuh

yeniden doğma

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌpælɪnˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/

Etymology

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).