metanoia

Meaning of metanoia

noun

change in one's way of life resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion.
what he demanded of people was metanoia, repentance, a complete change of heart

late 19th century: from Greek, from metanoein ‘change one's mind’.

Information about metanoia

It is a name.
The plural form of metanoia is: metanoias.
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Hyphenation of metanoia

metanoia

It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
metanoia is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with metanoia

anoia, dianoia, paranoia, Senoia, autosymnoia, hyponoia, hypernoia

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