AFFLATUSES Synonyms

• the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

• your intention; what you intend to do

• a personal view

• an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

• (music) melodic subject of a musical composition

• a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc

• causing something without any direct or apparent effort

• a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do

• the effect of one thing (or person) on another

• one having power to influence another

• have and exert influence or effect

• shape or influence; give direction to

• induce into action by using one's charm

• a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

• the creation of something in the mind

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• clear or deep perception of a situation

• a feeling of understanding

• the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation

• grasping the inner nature of things intuitively

• arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity

• a product of your creative thinking and work

• a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem

• (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings

• arousing to a particular emotion or action

• the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• the condition of being motivated

• the act of motivating; providing incentive

• persuasion formulated as a suggestion

• a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken)

• the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle

• the speech act of making something evident

• an enlightening or astonishing disclosure

• communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency