epiphanies

Noun

epiphany (countable and uncountable, plural epiphanies)

1. (countable) An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.
   • It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.

   Synonyms:

   aha moment, enlightenment, eureka moment, nirvana, satori

2. (countable) A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.
   • The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129

   Synonyms:

   theophany

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