say it: in-KAHR-nay-shuhn
incarnation is a noun meaning "a new personification of a familiar idea". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a new personification of a familiar idea
“the embodiment of hope”
“the incarnation of evil”
“the very avatar of cunning”
(Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
Christianity
time passed in a particular bodily form
“he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation”
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for incarnation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.