nigredo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A process of putrefaction or decomposition, one of the four major stages of the alchemical magnum opus.
  2. A term in Jungian psychology referring to mental negativity.

Word forms

nigredo

Etymology

From Latin nigrēdō (“blackness”).

Synonyms

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