palingenesis🔊

(also figuratively) Rebirth; regeneration; an instance of this. +

The recurrence of historical events in the same order in an infinite series of cycles.

(philosophy, theology, historical) Spiritual rebirth through the transmigration of the soul. +

(biology, chiefly historical or obsolete) The apparent repetition, during the development of a single embryo, of changes that occurred previously in the evolution of its species. +

(geology) The regeneration of magma by the melting of metamorphic rocks.