soul
Core of being
Soul is the immaterial part of a person—what animates the body and, in many beliefs, survives death.
By extension, soul is the essential nature of anything: the soul of wit, the very soul of the city.
A soul can be a person: not a soul in sight, poor soul.
Soul music emerged from Black American gospel and rhythm and blues, and soul food from Southern Black cooking traditions.
To bare your soul is to reveal your innermost self.
To sell your soul is to sacrifice integrity for gain.
Soulful pop genre
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- MotownDetroit's soulful moniker
- funkDepression or groove music
- bluesMournful American music genre
groove · feeling · passion · Aretha · heartfelt · vocal · emotion · rhythm
Who someone is
- selfOne's own being
- beingExisting as something
- coreCentral essential portion
- heartCirculatory system's pump
nature · character · psyche · consciousness · individuality · humanity · depth · substance
Soul's rebirth after death
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
- chakraSpiritual node in body
aura · enlightenment · transcendence · astral · metaphysical · esoteric · occult · past-life
Soul, mood, or liquor
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
- wraithSpectral apparition of someone
haunt · poltergeist · revenant · departed · restless · wandering · possession · séance
Existence beyond mortality
- immortalityExemption from death
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
resurrection · heaven · damnation · purgatory · divine · sacred · blessed · eternal
Internal moral sense
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
- goodnessMoral excellence
honor · decency · purity · corruption · piety · redemption · innocence · guilt
R&B
Soulful pop genre
blues · groove · feeling · passion · Aretha · heartfelt · vocal · emotion · rhythm · singer
identity
Who someone is
heart · nature · character · psyche · consciousness · individuality · humanity · depth · substance · quintessence
reincarnation
Soul's rebirth after death
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
- rebirthSpiritual or physical regeneration
chakra · aura · enlightenment · transcendence · astral · metaphysical · esoteric · occult · past-life · nirvana
spirit
Soul, mood, or liquor
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- phantomInsubstantial apparition
wraith · haunt · poltergeist · revenant · departed · restless · wandering · possession · séance · medium
afterlife
Existence beyond mortality
- immortalityExemption from death
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
- salvationDeliverance from harm
redemption · resurrection · heaven · damnation · purgatory · divine · sacred · blessed · eternal · grace
conscience
Internal moral sense
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
goodness · honor · decency · purity · corruption · piety · redemption · innocence · guilt · wickedness
life
Animate state
vitality · liveliness · vivacity · energy · spark · life-force · animating · living · aliveness · vigor
Southern
Of the region below
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- cornbreadQuick bread from maize
- mac-and-cheeseNoodles in cheese sauce
chitlins · gumbo · jambalaya · okra · grits · catfish · nourishing · heritage · tradition · homestyle
- beingsbeings, being, entities, entity, creatures
- genresaction, comedy, detective fiction, fantasy, horror
- music genresblues, pop, jazz, rock, classical
- abstract conceptsparadox, emotions, justice, truth, beauty
- American musicjazz, blues, country music, rock, country
- spiritghost, specter, phantom, apparition, wraith
soulbody
Physical structure, living thing
flesh · matter · corpse · physical form · corpus
soulrobot
Programmable automated machine
machine · automaton · lifelessness · android · mechanism
soulsoullessness
Lacking spirit or feeling
coldness · spiritlessness · heartlessness · emptiness · hollowness
- soul mateIdeal romantic counterpart
- heart and soulWith complete dedication
- lost soulPerson without purpose
- old soulPerson inexplicably mature
- soul searchingHonest internal moral inventory
- sell one's soulSacrifice values for benefit
souls, soulful, soulless, souled, soulmate, soulfully, soullessly, soulfulness, soullessness