epiphany
(ɪpɪfəni )
Word forms: epiphanies
1. uncountable noun
Epiphany is a Christian festival on the 6th of January which celebrates the arrival of the wise men who came to see Jesus Christ soon after he was born.
2. countable noun
An epiphany is a moment of sudden insight or understanding.
...Isaac Newton's epiphany about gravity and a falling apple.
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Collocations:
moment of epiphany personal epiphany
It was in that moment of epiphany that England began the long, inevitable descent towards ignominy.
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For me, it was a moment of epiphany.
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He's standing in the middle of a battlefield and has this moment of epiphany.
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Anecdotes of embittered, squabbling dons who long for a 'more real' outside world serve only to strengthen this highly personal epiphany.
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Here, stimulated both by the students and her own lively challenges to theoretical assumptions, she experienced a personal epiphany.
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He began an advanced degree in mathematics, but a personal epiphany led him to realize that this was not to be his field.
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He argues that political engagement becomes a matter of clicking a few links and neglects the vital, immeasurable inner-events and personal epiphanies that great social ruptures are actually made of.
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