[Vocabulary] Eschatology

[Narkises]

Hi,
I am looking for a word that refers to the other world after this world. I mean "the world after death". I could only find "Eschatology" but what I need is the name of that world. What do you call it (if you have encountered such a word)?

Thank you so much.

 

[kilroy65]

Maybe "the afterworld"?

 

[Matthew Wai]

Heaven or Hell.

 

[Rover_KE]

Those who believe in such a world or state call it variously

heaven, paradise, nirvana, utopia, reincarnation, reward, the afterlife, the next world, the promised land, the rapture, the hereafter etc, but never eschatology.

 

[Matthew Wai]

'The Underworld'── quoted from http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/underworld

 

[GoesStation]

The generic term is afterlife. Other terms apply to specific belief systems.

 

[Tdol]

We could add life after death to Rover's list.

 

[emsr2d2]

For me, "the afterlife" differs from "life after death". The former refers to a mythical place where the spirits of the dead go. The latter refers to a sort of reincarnation where someone who has died comes back as a live being again (animal or human).

 

[Tdol]

The afterlife may not include reincarnation, but life after death, for me, could be heaven or reincarnation.

 

[Matthew Wai]

In Christianity, life after death is eternal life in heaven but not reincarnation.

 

[Tdol]

I agree with you, but would include reincarnation in those belief systems that accept it in the term.

 

[Matthew Wai]

In Buddhism, for example.