Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun reincarnation

3 senses of reincarnation

Sense 1
reincarnation -- (embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form); "his reincarnation as a lion")
       => embodiment, incarnation, avatar -- (a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning")

Sense 2
reincarnation, rebirth, renascence -- (a second or new birth)
       => birth, nativity, nascency, nascence -- (the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child")

Sense 3
reincarnation -- (the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of Hell) depending on the person's own actions)
       => theological doctrine -- (the doctrine of a religious group)