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nirvana

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nir=va=na

CIDE DICTIONARY

nirvanan. [Skr. nirvā.].
     In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nirvana, 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

DEVIL DICTIONARY

nirvana

n. In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it.

THESAURUS

nirvana

Buddha-field, Canaan, Civitas Dei, KO, Lethe, New Jerusalem, Zion, absentmindedness, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, ataraxia, ataraxy, blackout, blank mind, blankmindedness, blankness, bliss, calm of mind, calmness, catalepsy, catatonia, catatony, coma, composure, contemplation, decay of memory, desirelessness, devachan, devaloka, elysium, emptiness of mind, empty-headedness, empyrean, faint, fallow mind, fatuity, foolishness, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgiveness, grayout, happy hunting ground, hazy recollection, heedlessness, imperturbability, inanity, inappetence, kamaloka, kamavachara, kayo, knockout, lack of appetite, lipothymia, lipothymy, lovelessness, lucid stillness, marmoreal repose, mental blankness, nepenthe, nirvana principle, nothingness, obliteration, oblivion, obliviousness, paradise, passionlessness, passivity, peace, peacefulness, placidity, placidness, quiescence, quiescency, quiet, quietism, quietness, quietude, repose, rest, restfulness, satori, semiconsciousness, senselessness, serenity, short memory, silence, silken repose, sleep, slumber, stillness, stupor, swoon, syncope, tabula rasa, thoughtfreeness, thoughtlessness, tranquillity, unambitiousness, unconsciousness, undesirousness, uneagerness, unintelligence, unmindfulness, vacancy, vacuity, waters of oblivion, wise passiveness

ROGET THESAURUS

nirvana

Inexistence

N inexistence, nonexistence, nonsubsistence, nonentity, nil, negativeness, nullity, nihility, nihilism, tabula rasa, blank, abeyance, absence, no such thing, nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration, inexistent, nonexistent, negative, blank, missing, omitted, absent, insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary, unreal, potential, virtual, baseless, in nubibus, unsubstantial, vain, unborn, uncreated, unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade, perished, annihilated extinct, exhausted, gone, lost, vanished, departed, gone with the wind, defunct, fabulous, ideal, supposititious &c, negatively, virtually, non ens.


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