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单词 metempsychosis
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
me•tem•psy•cho•sis  (mə tem′sə kōsis, -temp′-, met′əm sī-),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ses (-sēz).USA pronunciation 
  1. the transmigration of the soul, esp. the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
  • Greek, equivalent. to metempsȳchō-, variant stem of metempsȳchoûsthai to pass from one body into another (see met-, em-2, psycho-) + -sis -sis
  • Late Latin
  • 1580–90;
met•em•psy•chic  (met′əm sīkik),USA pronunciation me•tem′psy•chosic, me•tem′psy•chosi•cal, adj. 
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
metempsychosis /ˌmɛtəmsaɪˈkəʊsɪs/ n ( pl -ses / -siːz/)
  1. the migration of a soul from one body to another
Etymology: 16th Century: via Late Latin from Greek, from metempsukhousthai, from meta- + -em- in + psukhē soul

ˌmetempsyˈchosist n
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