The animating and vital principal in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion, and often conceived as an immaterial entity.
The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, and separable from the body at death.
The central or integral part, the vital core.
A person considered as the perfect embodiement of an intangible quality:
the very soul of discretion.
A person's emotional or moral nature.
A sense of ethnic pride, expressed in cultural areas through language, social customs, religion and music.
A strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or artist.
Soul Music.
~ sometimes the intellect only, the understanding, as distinguished from feeling.
~ the vehicle of individual personal existance.
"He is the very soul of bounty!" - Shakespeare.
Syn.: spirit, life, ardour, courage, fire, spark.
Core: base, bottom line, cause, essence, essentiality, ground, heart, mainspring, marrow, origin, pith, prinicple, quintessence, root, source, stuff, substance, virtuality.
Conscience: being, bosom, character, core, emotions, feeling, heart, mind, nature, psyche, semtiments, spirit, thoughts.