Metanoia

Quick meaning: Metanoia is a noun meaning A fundamental change of mind.

Meaning

A fundamental change of mind.

More Meanings

1. (in particular) A spiritual or religious conversion.
2. (psychology) A fundamental change in the human personality.
3. (rhetoric) A device used to retract a statement just made, and then state it in a better way.

Example Sentences

Metanoia is the knowledge that there can be totalities in this world totally different from what we thought. This is the sense in which metanoia is the most radical form of poiesis.

There is therefore enthusiasm no less than resignation in an enlightened metanoia. You give up everything in the form of claims; you receive everything back in the form of a divine presence.

Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about.

Ecstatic seizures are rare—they only occur in something like 1 or 2 percent of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. But the last half century has seen an enormous increase in the prevalence of other states sometimes permeated by religious joy and awe, "heavenly" visions and voices, and, not infrequently, religious conversion or metanoia.

Word Forms

• metanoias

Synonyms for metanoia

Depending on context, synonyms include correctio, epanorthosis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aftermind, metemorphothe, metempsychosis, intermetamorphosis, mentality, metaunderstanding.

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