Incarnation vs. Reincarnation

An incarnate being or form.

A living being embodying a deity or spirit.

An assumption of human form or nature.

A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.

Example: ‘The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.’;

The act of incarnating.

The state of being incarnated.

(obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.

An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.

Example: ‘She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.’; ‘The very incarnation of selfishness.’;

A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

a new personification of a familiar idea;

Example: ‘the embodiment of hope’; ‘the incarnation of evil’; ‘the very avatar of cunning’;

(Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ

time passed in a particular bodily form;

Example: ‘he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation’;

the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient being who is the material manifestation of an entity, god, spiritual or universal force whose original nature is immaterial.

A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body.

The philosophy of such a rebirth, a specific belief or doctrine on how such a rebirth occurs.

A fresh embodiment.

A new, considerably improved, version.

embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form);

Example: ‘his reincarnation as a lion’;

a second or new birth

the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. Resurrection is a similar process hypothesized by some religions, in which a soul comes back to life in the same body.