Why this word is great
PALINGENESY — [Noun] The philosophical or theological concept of rebirth or regeneration, especially of a spiritual essence. From the Late Latin palingenesia, from the Ancient Greek πάλιν (palin, "again") and γένεσις (genesis, "birth, origin"). Unlike reincarnation, which specifies the soul’s passage into a new corporeal vessel, or renaissance, which heralds a cultural revival, palingenesy is the profound, often solitary, renewal of an inner principle. It is the forest floor greening after a cleansing fire; the caterpillar dissolving within its chrysalis before reassembling for flight; the startling, cool smoothness of a serpent's new skin left discarded on a stone—a quiet argument against finality, forged from the wreckage of what was.