Synonyms for soul
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : sohl |
| Phonetic Transcription : soÊŠl |
Top 10 synonyms for soul Other synonyms for the word soul
- anima
- animating principle
- animation
- animus
- ardor
- bosom
- bottom
- breast
- breath of life
- cause
- disposition
- elan vital
- essence
- fervor
- force
- human being
- individual
- individuality
- intellect
- intelligence
- life
- living soul
- man
- marrow
- mind
- mortal
- nobility
- noumenon
- person
- personage
- personality
- phantom
- pith
- pneuma
- principle
- quintessence
- reason
- recesses of heart
- secret self
- shadow
- spirit
- spiritual being
- stuff
- substance
- thought
- umbra
- vital force
- vitality
- vivacity
- woman
Définition of soul
Origin :- "A substantial entity believed to be that in each person which lives, feels, thinks and wills" [Century Dictionary], Old English sawol "spiritual and emotional part of a person, animate existence; life, living being," from Proto-Germanic *saiwalo (cf. Old Saxon seola, Old Norse sala, Old Frisian sele, Middle Dutch siele, Dutch ziel, Old High German seula, German Seele, Gothic saiwala), of uncertain origin.
- Sometimes said to mean originally "coming from or belonging to the sea," because that was supposed to be the stopping place of the soul before birth or after death [Barnhart]; if so, it would be from Proto-Germanic *saiwaz (see sea). Klein explains this as "from the lake," as a dwelling-place of souls in ancient northern Europe.
- Meaning "spirit of a deceased person" is attested in Old English from 971. As a synonym for "person, individual, human being" (e.g. every living soul) it dates from early 14c. Soul-searching (n.) is attested from 1871, from the phrase used as a past participle adjective (1610s). Distinguishing soul from spirit is a matter best left to theologians.
- noun psyche, inspiration, energy
- noun being
- I have never seen the soul withdrawn without a struggle with the body.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- All pursuits that serve to connect the soul with the world whence it came are rejected.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Then I heard a voice, saying, 'Lo, the soul seeketh to ascend!'
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- When the soul was again led into the body, it related all that had happened to it.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- The good bishop believed she had jeopardised her soul with divorce.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He has the soul of a merchant tailor, actually, but not the tailor's manhood.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- But he was a generous man and all meanness of spirit was foreign to his soul.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- The land of Phoenicia had always been a counting-house without a soul.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Everybody was drawn to her, yet not a soul took any comfort in her.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Falling from the lips of others, they dropped with conviction into my own soul.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
Antonyms for soul
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