0 (in Christianity) the fact of someone giving up something, especially used to refer to Jesus Christ giving up part of his nature as a god and becoming a human:
Kenosis involves a gradual stripping of the personality, a gradual process of detachment from inessentials: possessions, clothing, material things, affections, family, power.
The key word to explain this loss of self is kenosis – the word translated as "emptying" in Philippians.
Finally the Son decided to take birth among us, and emptied himself (Greek kenosis) for that purpose.
In his Gospel, St John mimics the kenosis (emptying) of God the Word, who takes on the poverty of human existence.
