As a deity name
Name 269 of the Lakshmi Sahasranāma — Skanda Purana / Sanat Kumara Samhita, as taught by Sages Sanatkumara and Devotees
As a Hindi name
विरक्ति · noun · feminine
अनुराग का अभाव । चाह का न होना । जी का हटा रहना । विराग । विमुखता · उदासी- नता · अप्रसन्नता । खिन्नता — Śabdasāgara
विरक्ति · vi-rakti · s.f.
= S ورکتتا विरक्तता vi-raktatā, s.f. Change of disposition or feeling, disaffection, estrangement, alienation; disinclination, indifference (to); inattention; aversion, disgust — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 1188
विरक्ति · feminine
detachment, dispassion; aversion, indifference
Cited formation "विरक्ति" is वि- + रक्ति: रक्ति means "अनुराग । प्रेम", and the prefix वि- forms lacking, away, special, various, opposite. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §3(16) — cited from the extracted rule table — base gloss: Śabdasāgara
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi विरक्ति — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from Sanskrit विरक्ति (virakti), from वि- (vi-) + रक्ति (rakti). By surface analysis, वि- (vi-) + रक्ति (rakti).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
vi-˚rakti f. change of disposition or feeling, alienation of mind, want of interest, freedom of passion, indifference to (loc. gen. with upari, or acc. with prati), Rājat.; Pañcat.; BhP.
indifference to worldly objects, weanedness from the world, BhP.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
change of disposition or feeling, alienation of mind, want of interest, freedom of passion, indifference to (loc. gen. with upari, or acc. with prati)
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vi-˚rakti f. change of disposition or feeling, alienation of mind, want of interest, freedom of passion, indifference to (loc. gen. with upari, or acc. with prati), Rājat.; Pañcat.; BhP.
indifference to worldly objects, weanedness from the world, BhP.
virakti f. (-ktiḥ) 1 Aversion, disinclination. 2 Absence of affection. E. vi before rañja to affect, ktin aff.
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