Bible Dictionaries
Atman

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The life principle, soul, or individual essence.

(2):

(n.) The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Atman'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/atman.html. 1828.