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Nirvana
nirvana
1. In the Hindu and Buddhist religions, Nirvana is the highest spiritual state that can possibly be achieved. Entering the realm of Nirvana is only possible for those who have become pure. N-UNCOUNT 2. People sometimes refer to a state of complete happiness and peace as nirvana. Many businessmen think that a world where relative prices never varied would be nirvana. = paradise N-UNCOUNT
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noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Sanskrit nirva?a, literally, act of extinguishing, from nis- out + vati it blows — more at wind Date: 1801 1. the final beatitude that transcends suffering, karma, and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness 2. a. a place or state of oblivion to care, pain, or external reality; also bliss, heaven b. a goal hoped for but apparently unattainable ; dream • nirvanic adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. (in Buddhism) perfect bliss and release from karma, attained by the extinction of individuality. Etymology: Skr. nirvana f. nirva be extinguished f. nis out + va- to blow ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n 1 technical a state of knowledge or understanding that is beyond life and death, suffering, and change, and is the aim of believers in Buddhism 2 informal a condition of great happiness and a feeling of peace ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1836, from Skt. nirvana-s "extinction, disappearance" (of the individual soul into the universal), lit. "to blow out, a blowing out" ("not transitively, but as a fire ceases to draw;" a literal Latinization would be de-spiration), from nis-, nir- "out" + va "to blow." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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