manifestation

Noun

manifestation (countable and uncountable, plural manifestations)

1. The act or process of becoming manifest.
   • The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.
   • Rather, the genuinely historical lies in the appearing of the phenomenalizing cogitatio, an appearing that does not refer back to pregivennesses; that is, the genuinely historical lies in the manifestation of noetic-noematic consciousness.2012, W. Mckenna, R.M. Harlan, L.E. Winters, Apriori and World, page 101
2. The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.
   • This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.
   • Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades...2013 August 30, Kat Kinsman, “Something borrowed: Wedding traditions from around the world”, in CNN
3. The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
4. A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration or to prevent people from accidentally walking into it.
5. (dated) A political demonstration or protest.
   • The nationalist parties were also busy during the whole of April preparing a manifestation for the 3rd of May, the centennial anniversary of the “constitution of 1791.”1891 June, “Russian Chronicle”, in Free Russia, number 11, page 16
   • “The Printers Union published a communique branding General Radescu and those who took part in the manifestation as ‘fascists.’”1949, Reuben H. Markham, Rumania Under the Soviet Yoke, page 458
6. (informal) Willing something into existence (See manifest (verb)).
   • I don't believe in manifestation.