Apotheosis
noun
A person or thing's highest point of development or achievement.
Winning the international competition was the apotheosis of her athletic career.
Often appears as...
- achieve apotheosis
- apotheosis of wisdom
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
The process of making someone into a god in religion.
In ancient times, the apotheosis of a ruler was a common practice.
Often appears as...
- roman apotheosis
- apotheosis in art
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Religious
noun
The perfect form or example of something.
For some, the Mona Lisa is the apotheosis of Renaissance painting.
Often appears as...
- apotheosis of beauty
- apotheosis of love
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A person or thing's highest point of development or achievement.
Winning the international competition was the apotheosis of her athletic career.
Often appears as...
- achieve apotheosis
- apotheosis of wisdom
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
The process of making someone into a god in religion.
In ancient times, the apotheosis of a ruler was a common practice.
Often appears as...
- roman apotheosis
- apotheosis in art
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Religious
noun
The perfect form or example of something.
For some, the Mona Lisa is the apotheosis of Renaissance painting.
Often appears as...
- apotheosis of beauty
- apotheosis of love
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Career Highlight
Use 'apotheosis' to describe the peak achievement in someone's professional life.
Becoming CEO was the apotheosis of his business aspirations.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Contexts
'Apotheosis' usually appears in positive contexts, referring to something highly admirable.
Her performance was the apotheosis of ballet dancing.
Pro Tip 3/3Nonhuman Subjects
Apotheosis can also apply to objects, ideas, or events reaching their highest form.
The invention was an apotheosis of modern engineering.
Pro Tip 1/3Career Highlight
Use 'apotheosis' to describe the peak achievement in someone's professional life.
Becoming CEO was the apotheosis of his business aspirations.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Contexts
'Apotheosis' usually appears in positive contexts, referring to something highly admirable.
Her performance was the apotheosis of ballet dancing.
Pro Tip 3/3Nonhuman Subjects
Apotheosis can also apply to objects, ideas, or events reaching their highest form.
The invention was an apotheosis of modern engineering.
Pro Tip 1/3Career Highlight
Use 'apotheosis' to describe the peak achievement in someone's professional life.
Becoming CEO was the apotheosis of his business aspirations.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Contexts
'Apotheosis' usually appears in positive contexts, referring to something highly admirable.
Her performance was the apotheosis of ballet dancing.
Pro Tip 3/3Nonhuman Subjects
Apotheosis can also apply to objects, ideas, or events reaching their highest form.
The invention was an apotheosis of modern engineering.
Compare with
culminationdeificationelevateexaltationglorificationidealizationquintessencesublimatetranscendence
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Wisdom from great...
all those years "... a ripening and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov -- noted to me that, like art and like color, literature helps us to remember what we've experienced. And indeed, when I shared the list with my grandfather, he nodded in recognition.
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Wisdom from great...
all those years "... a ripening and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov -- noted to me that, like art and like color, literature helps us to remember what we've experienced. And indeed, when I shared the list with my grandfather, he nodded in recognition.
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Quote examples
Michael Wolff
American Author
The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.
Quote examples
Eddy Merckx
I have decided to give up competition. I cannot train properly for the Tour de France which I had hoped to ride for the last time as apotheosis to my career. Doctors are forbidding me to ride anymore in high level competition and I bow to them.
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Margo Jefferson
American Critic
Michael Jackson loved epic symbols. In his shows and his videos, he always destroyed or salvaged worlds; he was the hero of parables about street violence, sexual combat, war and natural disaster. It was always apocalypse or apotheosis now.
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Steven Weber
American Actor
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
No bully - and Trump is the apotheosis of every bully, ever - is ever satisfied with just one day's worth of your lunch money.
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William McFee
American Writer
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
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Michael Wolff
American Author
The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.
Quote examples
Eddy Merckx
I have decided to give up competition. I cannot train properly for the Tour de France which I had hoped to ride for the last time as apotheosis to my career. Doctors are forbidding me to ride anymore in high level competition and I bow to them.
Quote examples
Margo Jefferson
American Critic
Michael Jackson loved epic symbols. In his shows and his videos, he always destroyed or salvaged worlds; he was the hero of parables about street violence, sexual combat, war and natural disaster. It was always apocalypse or apotheosis now.
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Steven Weber
American Actor
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
No bully - and Trump is the apotheosis of every bully, ever - is ever satisfied with just one day's worth of your lunch money.
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William McFee
American Writer
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
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