Incarnation vs. Reincarnation — What's the Difference?

Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient being who is the material manifestation of an entity, god, spiritual or universal force whose original nature is immaterial.

A second or new birth

The act of incarnating.

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. Resurrection is a similar process hypothesized by some religions, in which a soul comes back to life in the same body.

The condition of being incarnated.

Rebirth of the soul in another human or nonhuman body.

Incarnation(Christianity) The doctrine that the Son of God was conceived in the womb of Mary and that Jesus is true God and true man.

A reappearance or revitalization in another form; a new embodiment

A bodily manifestation of a supernatural being.

A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body.

One who is believed to personify a given abstract quality or idea.

The philosophy of such a rebirth, a specific belief or doctrine on how such a rebirth occurs.

A period of time passed in a given bodily form or condition

A fresh embodiment.

An incarnate being or form.

A new, considerably improved, version.

A version or iteration (of something).

Embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form);

A living being embodying a deity or spirit.

The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions

An assumption of human form or nature.

A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.

The act of incarnating.

The state of being incarnated.

(obsolete) A rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.

An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act.

A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

A new personification of a familiar idea;

(Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ

Time passed in a particular bodily form;

The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.