sattva

[ suht-vuh ]

noun

, Hinduism.

1. (in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) goodness or purity, one of the three fundamental qualities of matter said to be present in everything at varying levels.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sattva¹

First recorded in 1780–90; from Sanskrit: “entity, essence, reality,” from sát “being, existing, living” ( sooth ( def ) ) + -tva, abstract noun suffix ( -tude ( def ) )

Example Sentences

For people with lymphoma, the figure is around 1 in 5, says Sattva Neelapu, a cancer scientist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who led the trial that resulted in Yescarta’s approval.

From Nature

Sattva Vida makes date-based energy bites, and Nutri-Pop markets its fruit and seed balls to the paleo crowd.

From Washington Post

But researchers still don’t fully understand how they arise, says Sattva Neelapu, an oncologist specializing in lymphoma and myeloma at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

From Nature

Adding some kind of control switch to the engineered cells would allow doctors to dial down the therapy if a patient’s immune system gets overactivated, or to dial it up if the treatment is not having the desired effect, says Sattva Neelapu, a professor and lymphoma expert at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

From Scientific American

The sattva part of Bodhisattva came from the Indo- European word es, meaning to be, or is, which, on its way into Sanskrit as sat and sant, also became esse in Latin and einai in Greek; einai became the -ont in certain words signifying being, such as “symbiont.”

From Literature