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theophania

theophania is the alternative form of theophany.

Meaning of theophany

Noun

theophany (plural theophanies)

  1. A manifestation of a deity to a person.
    • It was a bewildering theophany, since it was impossible to make out anything clearly in the stormy obscurity of thunder, lightning, smoke and wind.2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 47

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Questions about theophania

What is theophania the alternative form of?
Theophania is the alternative form of theophany.

Words near theophania in the dictionary

  1. theophagic
  2. theophagite
  3. theophagites
  4. theophagous
  5. theophagy
  6. theophania
  7. theophanic
  8. theophanically
  9. theophanies
  10. theophanism
  11. theophany

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Adapted from Wiktionary: theophania (page history and authors); theophany (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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