Metanoia

Metanoia

• Part of Speech: noun
• Definition: spiritual conversion or awakening; fundamental change of character
• Etymology: Greek 'change one's mind, repent'

Metanoia (noun)

• a profound, usually spiritual, transformation; conversion.

Metanoia

• 1873, "penitence, spiritual conversion," from Gk. metanoia "afterthought, repentance," from metanoein "to change one's mind or purpose."

Paranoia

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  "mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions," 1891 (earlier paranoea 1811), from Gk. paranoia "mental derangement, madness," from paranoos "mentally ill, insane," from para- "beside, beyond" + noos "mind."

Metabolic

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  1845, from Ger. metabolisch (1839), from Gk. metabolikos "changeable," from metabole "a change, changing," related to metaballein "to change" (see metabolism).

Conversion

• A converting or being converted; specif., such as a change from lack of faith to religious belief; adoption of a religion or a change from one belief, religion, doctrine, opinion, etc. to another
• To change from one form or use to another; transform.