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MOKSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moksa mean? 

MOKSA (noun)
  The noun MOKSA has 1 sense:

1. (Hinduism) release from the cycle of rebirthplay

  Familiarity information: MOKSA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MOKSA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(Hinduism) release from the cycle of rebirth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("moksa" is a kind of...):

cycle of rebirth ((Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms)

Domain category:

Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)


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