psychopannychism · noun — the doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. It carries an Arena rating of 1368, earned across 79 head-to-head judged battles.
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Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, psychopannychism ranks #110 of 17,163 for Most Sublime Words, #622 of 17,140 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #908 of 17,166 for The Improbable, #932 of 17,177 for Most Exacting Words.
Why “psychopannychism” is a great word
PSYCHOPANNYCHISM — [Noun] The theological doctrine that the soul enters a state of unconscious sleep at death, awakening only at the resurrection. From psycho- (pertaining to the soul or mind) + Ancient Greek παννύχιος (pannúkhios, "lasting all night, all-night-long") + -ism (denoting a doctrine or practice). Unlike thnetopsychism, which posits the soul’s mortal dissolution, or immortalism, which insists on perpetual, conscious existence, psychopannychism proposes a suspended animation—the soul persists, but dreams nothing. It is the patient silence of a seed in winter soil, the profound hush of a theater between acts, the unremembered stretch of a deep, anesthetic slumber—a faith not in cessation, but in a held breath awaiting the cue for dawn.
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Etymology
From psycho- + Ancient Greek παννύχιος (pannúkhios, “all night long”) + -ism.
noun
- The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.
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