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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope