Nirvana

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Buddhism The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion.
  • n. Hinduism Emancipation from ignorance and the extinction of all attachment.
  • n. An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
  • n. state of paradise; heightened or great pleasure.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Buddhism, the condition of a Buddha; the state to which the Buddhist saint is to aspire as the highest aim and highest good.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
  • n. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beatification    beatitude    blessedness    region    part   
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    Buddhism   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Agana    Alanna    Bophuthatswana    Botswana    Briana    Donna    Guiana    Guyana    Haryana    Liana   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    moksha    mukti    arahatship    turiya    nibbna    rebirth    voidness    panna    reincarnation    dhyana