Associations to the word «Palingenesis»

Wiktionary

PALINGENESIS, noun. (biology) The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species.
PALINGENESIS, noun. (Christian theology) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul in Christian baptism.
PALINGENESIS, noun. Rebirth.
PALINGENESIS, noun. Regeneration.

Dictionary definition

PALINGENESIS, noun. Emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King