flower of life
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hexagonal pattern of overlapping circles, associated with the New Age movement and sacred geometry.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "This image of the Flower of Life (Fig. 2-20) is not only found in Egypt, but all over the world."
- "The lotus was in some Eastern countries imagined blossoming upon the Tree of Life, as the Flower of Life, and is thus represented in Assyrian bas-reliefs. Because the Rose, the flower sacred to the Virgin Mary, and the flower that Apuleius’ adventurer ate, when he was changed out of the ass’s shape and received into the fellowship of Isis, is the western Flower of Life, I have imagined it growing upon the Tree of Life."
Etymology
From the similarity to flower petals, popularized by American esoteric researcher Drunvalo Melchizedek.
Usage
Inflected Forms
flowers of life (plural)