ahimsa
/əˈhɪmsɑː/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.10 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A doctrine of non-violence, concerned with the sacredness of all living things and an effort to avoid causing harm to them.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Already, at this very early date, the ritualists were moving towards the ideal of ahimsa ("harmlessness") that would become the indispensable virtue of the Indian Axial Age."
- "This, in essence, is the Jain doctrine of ahimsa – a direct inversion of Vedic beliefs about the sustaining powers of animal sacrifice."