illumination
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- noun
- /ɪˌluːməˈneɪʃən/
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iluminación (espiritual)
- The seeming destruction would actually be the moment of illumination and redemption.
- spiritual illumination
- mystical illumination
- a moment of illumination
And again, as Eckhart Tolle says, that for some people, it happens as a sudden illumination.
- And again, as Eckhart Tolle says, that for some people, it happens as a sudden illumination.
- The living water is the next stage and the illumination of it, the recognition of it, is tantamount to our experience of it.
- And one of the key ideas that you see him working out that you don't see in Thomas Aquinas, for example, is what we call divine illumination.
Examples
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At some point, there comes initial illumination, a sense of contact with God.
Academic text (1994) -
With the mind, we analyze data, while in the heart, we wait for illumination on it.
Blog text (12) -
But for that one second, he saw the blinding illumination he had sought for as long as he could remember.
Fiction book (1997) -
It was a moment of illumination, but we still didn't really understand at that point what the landscape of al Qaeda and global terrorism was.
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The theme of transcendent spiritual illumination is paralleled in the frescoes of Saint Francis in the fourth bay.
Academic text (2006) -
In meditation, she experienced a profound illumination that deepened her understanding of life.
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His writings reflect a spiritual illumination, inspiring others to seek their own enlightenment.
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After years of searching, she finally felt a sense of illumination about her purpose in the world.
Synonyms
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Information that makes people understand something hidden
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A spiritual presence that helps a person know what to do
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A state of complete spiritual understanding that ends suffering and rebirth
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A quiet feeling of God's presence inside a person that guides their choices
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A quiet inner feeling that tells people what is right in Quaker belief
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A way of lighting a sample under a microscope to make tiny things look bright against a dark background
- Specialized
A way to see tiny things under a microscope as bright shapes on a dark background
- Specialized
A measure of how much light falls on a surface, for example the lux
How Enlightened
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Surface Forms
Morphology
illumination = illuminate (semi-transparent) = illuminate + ation
The spiritual sense 'enlightenment' is a figurative extension of 'to light up' the mind; the metaphor is common but somewhat abstract for lower-level learners.
Etymology
Illumination comes from Latin lumin ('light'). People used the idea of an inner 'light' to describe a sudden spiritual discovery, so illumination now means a deep moment of inner understanding from a higher source.