"epiphany" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪˈpɪfəni/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /ɪˈpɪfni/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /ɛˈpɪfəni/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-epiphany.ogg , en-au-epiphany.ogg Forms: epiphanies [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English epiphanie, from Old French epyphanie, from Late Latin epiphania, from Ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια (epipháneia, “manifestation, striking appearance”), from ἐπιφαίνω (epiphaínō, “I appear, display”), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, appear”). English Epiphany (of Christ) since the 14th century, generic use since the 17th century. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰeh₂-|id=shine}}, {{inh|en|enm|epiphanie}} Middle English epiphanie, {{der|en|fro|epyphanie}} Old French epyphanie, {{der|en|LL.|epiphania}} Late Latin epiphania, {{der|en|grc|ἐπιφάνεια||manifestation, striking appearance}} Ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια (epipháneia, “manifestation, striking appearance”) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable Synonyms: aha moment, enlightenment, eureka moment, nirvana, satori Translations (illuminating realization or discovery): تَجَلٍّ (tajallin) [masculine] (Arabic), проглеждане (progleždane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), прозрение (prozrenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 頓悟 /顿悟 (dùnwù) (Chinese Mandarin), 洞察 (dòngchá) (Chinese Mandarin), 領悟 /领悟 (lǐngwù) (Chinese Mandarin), åbenbaring [common-gender] (Danish), epifanie (Dutch), ingeving [neuter] (Dutch), ahaa-elämys (Finnish), oivallus (Finnish), valaistus (Finnish), illumination (French), révélation [feminine] (French), déclic [masculine] (French), Erleuchtung [feminine] (German), Heureka-Moment [masculine] (German), Aha-Erlebnis [neuter] (German), הֶאָרָה (heará) [feminine] (Hebrew), felismerés (Hungarian), megvilágosodás (Hungarian), reveláció (Hungarian), rivelazione [feminine] (Italian), 洞察 (dōsatsu) (alt: どうさつ) (Japanese), прогледување (progleduvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), åpenbaring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), epifania [feminine] (Polish), objawienie [neuter] (Polish), olśnienie [neuter] (Polish), epifania [feminine] (Portuguese), epifanie [neuter] (Romanian), прозре́ние (prozrénije) [neuter] (Russian), озаре́ние (ozarénije) [neuter] (Russian), epifànija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), прозріння (prozrinnja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
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  2. (countable) A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being. Tags: countable Synonyms: theophany Translations (manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being): تَجَلٍّ (tajallin) [masculine] (Arabic), богоявле́ние (bogojavlénie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 顯示 /显示 (xiǎnshì) (Chinese Mandarin), zjevení [neuter] (Czech), åbenbaring [common-gender] (Danish), verschijning (Dutch), openbaring (Dutch), epifanio (Esperanto), ilmestys (Finnish), apparition [feminine] (French), epifanía [feminine] (Galician), Erscheinung [feminine] (German), Offenbarung [feminine] (German), Manifestation [feminine] (German), Epiphanie [feminine] (German), επιφάνεια (epifáneia) (Greek), θεοφάνεια (theofáneia) (Greek), megtestesülés (Hungarian), megjelenés (Hungarian), epifánia (Hungarian), guðdómsbirting [feminine] (Icelandic), epifania [feminine] (Italian), Epifania [feminine] (Italian), ierofania [feminine] (Italian), apparizione [feminine] (Italian), befana [feminine] (Italian), エピファニー (Epifanī) (Japanese), богојавление (bogojavlenie) [neuter] (Macedonian), åpenbaring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), تجلی (tecelli) (Ottoman Turkish), epifania [feminine] (Polish), objawienie [neuter] (Polish), epifania [feminine] (Portuguese), manifestação [feminine] (Portuguese), epifanie [neuter] (Romanian), явле́ние (javlénije) [neuter] (Russian), богоявле́ние (bogojavlénije) [feminine] (Russian), epifànija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), bogojávljēnje [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), epifanía [feminine] (Spanish), manifestación [feminine] (Spanish), Pifanìa [feminine] (Venetan), Pefanìa [feminine] (Venetan)
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  3. (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of Epiphany. Tags: alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: Epiphany Related terms (Christian celebration): Epiphany
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: epiphanal, epiphanic, epiphanous, epiphany cake, epiphanylike, sleepiphany Related terms: Advent, Christmas, eureka, Twelve Days of Christmas

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Instead of examining institutions and classes, structures of economic production and social control, one had to think about “moments”—moments of love, hate, poetry, frustration, action, surrender, delight, humiliation, justice, cruelty, resignation, surprise, disgust, resentment, self-loathing, pity, fury, peace of mind—those tiny epiphanies, Lefebvre said, in which the absolute possibilities and temporal limits of anyone's existence were revealed.",
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      "sense": "illuminating realization or discovery",
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      "word": "rivelazione"
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      "word": "洞察"
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      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "xiǎnshì",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
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      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
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      "word": "zjevení"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
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      "word": "åbenbaring"
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      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "word": "ilmestys"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "apparition"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "epifanía"
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "Erscheinung"
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      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
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      "word": "guðdómsbirting"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
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      "word": "epifania"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ierofania"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apparizione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "befana"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "Epifanī",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "word": "エピファニー"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "bogojavlenie",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "богојавление"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "åpenbaring"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "lang_code": "ota",
      "roman": "tecelli",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "word": "تجلی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "epifania"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "objawienie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "epifania"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "manifestação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "epifanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "javlénije",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "явле́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "bogojavlénije",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "богоявле́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "epifànija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bogojávljēnje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "epifanía"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "manifestación"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetan",
      "lang_code": "vec",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pifanìa"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetan",
      "lang_code": "vec",
      "sense": "manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pefanìa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "epiphany"
}

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