human soul
Immortal inner self
The human soul is conceived in religious and philosophical traditions as the immaterial essence of a person—the part that thinks, feels, and persists beyond the physical body.
In Christian theology, the soul is immortal and subject to divine judgment; in other traditions it may be reincarnated or absorbed into a universal spirit.
Outside religious contexts, human soul often refers to someone's deepest nature or authentic self: She poured her human soul into that painting.
The phrase emphasizes what distinguishes inner life from mere biological existence.
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- astral bodySoul separate from flesh
- out of bodySensation of leaving flesh
salvation · essence · life force · anima · spirit · empathy · free will · identity · existentialism · dark night · self-awareness · inner light · aura · reincarnation · grace · karma · breath of life · divine spark
- theological anthropologyimage of God, divine image, divine likeness, likeness, fall of man
- immortalityimmortality, eternal life, immortals, everlasting life, deathlessness
- ThomismThomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, scholasticism, prime mover, Aquinas
human soulbody
Physical structure, living thing
physical body · flesh · corporeal form · matter · physical form
human soulmachine
Power-driven working device
automaton · robot · artificial intelligence · zombie · android
human soulsoullessness
Lacking spirit or feeling
spiritual void · spiritual death · the void · oblivion · nothingness