next world
Where souls go
The next world is the place or state of existence believed to follow death—heaven, the afterlife, or whatever lies beyond mortal life.
The phrase implies a journey or transition: She believed she would see her mother again in the next world.
It carries religious or spiritual connotations without specifying a particular doctrine.
- other sideContrary position or location
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- karmic cycleCause-effect across rebirths
- kingdom comeHeaven or the afterlife
- TartarusDeepest realm of punishment
moksha · Elysium · heaven · pearly gates · limbo · purgatory · grave · end times · Valhalla · happy hunting ground · new earth · eschatology · nirvana · beyond · crossing over · departed · death · divine
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- Mythic RealmsAsgard, Avalon, Elysium, Hades, Valhalla
- Heavenparadise, pearly gates, eternal life, kingdom of heaven, New Jerusalem
- eternityeternity, everlasting, eternal, timeless, perpetuity
world, next, worldly, afterlife, otherworldly, underworld, unworldly, hereafter, netherworld