transmigrationism means the belief that the soul of a person passes into another body after death. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
Why “transmigrationism” is a great word
TRANSMIGRATIONISM — [Noun] The doctrinal belief that the soul passes into another body after death. From 'transmigration' (from Latin 'transmigratio', meaning "a passing over or migration," from 'trans-' ("across") + 'migratio' ("migration")) + the suffix '-ism' (denoting a system, principle, or doctrine). First attested in 1888. Unlike “reincarnation,” which suggests an ethically weighted, cyclical rebirth within a specific religious framework, or “metempsychosis,” the technical term for the soul’s passage itself, transmigrationism is the colder, systematic philosophy built upon that possibility. It is the impersonal logic of the hermit-crab soul, the Pythagorean’s refusal to swat a fly, the farmer’s certainty that the old bull’s stubbornness lives on in the new calf—a doctrine that makes mortality not an end, but an indifferent, perpetual tenancy.
Etymology
From transmigration + -ism.
noun
- The belief that the soul of a person passes into another body after death.