Epiphany
noun
A moment when you suddenly feel that you understand or suddenly become very aware of something.
I experienced an epiphany when I realized I had been doing it wrong all along.
Often appears as...
- an epiphany struck
- experience an epiphany
noun
A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles.
The Church celebrates the Epiphany on the 6th of January.
Often appears as...
- celebrate the epiphany
- feast of epiphany
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Religious
noun
A moment when you suddenly feel that you understand or suddenly become very aware of something.
I experienced an epiphany when I realized I had been doing it wrong all along.
Often appears as...
- an epiphany struck
- experience an epiphany
noun
A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles.
The Church celebrates the Epiphany on the 6th of January.
Often appears as...
- celebrate the epiphany
- feast of epiphany
Usage tips
Religious
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Insight
Use 'epiphany' for the sudden clarity or understanding you did not have before.
At the summit, watching the sunrise, I had an epiphany about the purpose of my journey.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
'Epiphany' can be used figuratively and doesn't always involve a religious experience.
Her smile was like an epiphany that brightened my whole day.
Pro Tip 3/3Powerful Change
An 'epiphany' often leads to a change in thinking or behavior.
His grandfather's words led to an epiphany that changed his attitude towards life.
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Insight
Use 'epiphany' for the sudden clarity or understanding you did not have before.
At the summit, watching the sunrise, I had an epiphany about the purpose of my journey.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
'Epiphany' can be used figuratively and doesn't always involve a religious experience.
Her smile was like an epiphany that brightened my whole day.
Pro Tip 3/3Powerful Change
An 'epiphany' often leads to a change in thinking or behavior.
His grandfather's words led to an epiphany that changed his attitude towards life.
Pro Tip 1/3Sudden Insight
Use 'epiphany' for the sudden clarity or understanding you did not have before.
At the summit, watching the sunrise, I had an epiphany about the purpose of my journey.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
'Epiphany' can be used figuratively and doesn't always involve a religious experience.
Her smile was like an epiphany that brightened my whole day.
Pro Tip 3/3Powerful Change
An 'epiphany' often leads to a change in thinking or behavior.
His grandfather's words led to an epiphany that changed his attitude towards life.
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They're showing how much nutrition that they could've obtained. But something else happened, which was an epiphany in my life. They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae. Birds then came, bringing in seeds, and our pile became an oasis of life.
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A conservative's plea:...
I know that free enterprise isn't perfect, and I know that free enterprise isn't everything we need to build a better world. But that is great. And that's beyond politics. Here's what I learned. This is the epiphany. Capitalism is not just about accumulation.
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Anant Agarwal: Why...
until one day I had this epiphany. I texted her. I got an instant response. I said, no, that must have been by accident. She must have thought, you know, some friend of hers was calling her. So I texted her again. Boom, another response.
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The legend of Annapurna,...
could not be so easily dismissed. At her husband’s epiphany, the compassionate Parvati could no longer stand by and watch her devotees wasting away. To walk among them and restore their health, she took the form of a new avatar,
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How One Penguin Started...
time at dusk, I think is one of the most fantastic wildlife spectacles I ever seen, because you have penguins everywhere. Absolutely splendid! I like to describe that moment like an epiphany moment and I just knew
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Al Gore: This Is the...
And I'm curious what you think that will do in terms of accelerating or decelerating the energy transition? Yeah, well, this should be a moment of global epiphany. This is a fossil fuel war, as many have said.
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How location might help...
we had an epiphany we realized that if we could reliably determine the location of a user accessing an account and then block or grant access in real time based on user-defined acceptable locations we
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Infinity according to...
culminating in an epiphany where he finally understands the god’s message. Imprisoned deep underground, he has no one to share this meaning with, and it changes nothing about his circumstances,
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Design for All 5 Senses...
All right, let's get back to the question of why sex is so good. Many years after the solar powered clocks project, a young lady I knew suggested maybe sex is so good because of the five senses. And when she said this, I had an epiphany. So I decided to evaluate different experiences I had in my life
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
They're showing how much nutrition that they could've obtained. But something else happened, which was an epiphany in my life. They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae. Birds then came, bringing in seeds, and our pile became an oasis of life.
Video examples
This Low-Cost Robot Can...
DAVID few years ago, I had this big epiphany. How do we shift from just something we're building together to all of these ways that we could be exploring together? We're building the largest ocean observation network in the world and we're doing it with other people.
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A conservative's plea:...
I know that free enterprise isn't perfect, and I know that free enterprise isn't everything we need to build a better world. But that is great. And that's beyond politics. Here's what I learned. This is the epiphany. Capitalism is not just about accumulation.
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Anant Agarwal: Why...
until one day I had this epiphany. I texted her. I got an instant response. I said, no, that must have been by accident. She must have thought, you know, some friend of hers was calling her. So I texted her again. Boom, another response.
Video examples
The legend of Annapurna,...
could not be so easily dismissed. At her husband’s epiphany, the compassionate Parvati could no longer stand by and watch her devotees wasting away. To walk among them and restore their health, she took the form of a new avatar,
Video examples
How One Penguin Started...
time at dusk, I think is one of the most fantastic wildlife spectacles I ever seen, because you have penguins everywhere. Absolutely splendid! I like to describe that moment like an epiphany moment and I just knew
Video examples
Al Gore: This Is the...
And I'm curious what you think that will do in terms of accelerating or decelerating the energy transition? Yeah, well, this should be a moment of global epiphany. This is a fossil fuel war, as many have said.
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How location might help...
we had an epiphany we realized that if we could reliably determine the location of a user accessing an account and then block or grant access in real time based on user-defined acceptable locations we
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Infinity according to...
culminating in an epiphany where he finally understands the god’s message. Imprisoned deep underground, he has no one to share this meaning with, and it changes nothing about his circumstances,
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David Lange
New Zealander Politician
It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to religious thing; it's not sort of church-based, but you end up with a serenity which you didn't have before, and I just simply enjoy it. It really does sound stupid, but I've got to tell you it's made my life.
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John 5
American Musician
Inspiration is a really hard thing to describe, but it's something that triggers your brain, like the first time I heard a certain guitar player that I loved or the first time that I saw a monster or the first time that I saw anything that really was an epiphany for me. It just stays with you your whole life.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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Chloe Pirrie
Scottish Actress
If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are not quite as engaged as you'd hope, you have to remember there is always somebody who might be falling in love with this world and having an epiphany. I was that person.
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Alice Lowe
English Actress
I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.
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Christopher Voss
American Businessman
The 'that's right' breakthrough usually doesn't come at the beginning of a negotiation. It's invisible to the counterpart when it occurs, and they embrace what you've said. To them, it's a subtle epiphany.
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John Milton
English Poet
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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Dennis Lehane
American Author
The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.
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Brad Anderson
American Director
I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.
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Chrissy Metz
American Actress
When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.
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David Lange
New Zealander Politician
It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to religious thing; it's not sort of church-based, but you end up with a serenity which you didn't have before, and I just simply enjoy it. It really does sound stupid, but I've got to tell you it's made my life.
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John 5
American Musician
Inspiration is a really hard thing to describe, but it's something that triggers your brain, like the first time I heard a certain guitar player that I loved or the first time that I saw a monster or the first time that I saw anything that really was an epiphany for me. It just stays with you your whole life.
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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Chloe Pirrie
Scottish Actress
If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are not quite as engaged as you'd hope, you have to remember there is always somebody who might be falling in love with this world and having an epiphany. I was that person.
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Alice Lowe
English Actress
I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.
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Christopher Voss
American Businessman
The 'that's right' breakthrough usually doesn't come at the beginning of a negotiation. It's invisible to the counterpart when it occurs, and they embrace what you've said. To them, it's a subtle epiphany.
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John Milton
English Poet
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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Dennis Lehane
American Author
The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.
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Brad Anderson
American Director
I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.
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Chrissy Metz
American Actress
When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.
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