EPIPHANY Synonyms

• 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

• coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

• making real or giving the appearance of reality

• a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer

• a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained

• the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer

• something that is made real or concrete

• 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

• twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus

• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

• any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

• (Zen Buddhism) a state of sudden spiritual enlightenment

• a visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person

• the season of Epiphany

• twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus

• twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus

• twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus