dakini means A sacred female spirit. It carries an Arena rating of 1388, earned across 64 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, dakini ranks #855 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #1,617 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #2,731 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #6,083 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words.
Why “dakini” is a great word
DAKINI — [Noun] A sacred female spirit or accomplished yoginī in Tantric Buddhism, embodying dynamic wisdom and enlightened energy that dismantles obstacles. From Sanskrit डाकिनी (ḍākinī). Unlike yoginī, which denotes a human female practitioner, or apsara, a celestial nymph of beauty and diversion, the dakini is a numinous, often wrathful manifestation of liberating insight. She is the skeletal dancer in a charnel ground, the sudden gust that scatters carefully arranged thoughts, and the lightning-flash that shatters intellectual calm—a force that reveals ultimate truth not as serene, but as fiercely alive.
Etymology
From Sanskrit डाकिनी (ḍākinī).
noun
- A sacred female spirit.
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