Inspiration

Noun

 * 1) The act of inspiring or breathing in.
 * 2) breath
 * 3)  The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm.
 * 4) The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
 * 5) A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.

Synonyms

 * spark, flash, eureka

Antonyms

 * expiration

Derived terms

 * inspirational

Related terms

 * inspire

Adjectives for Inspiration
passionate;  fatal;   unmistakable;  fresh; happy; healthier; subtle; verbal; sudden; heroic  divine; adequate; overpowering; mystic; elevated; dramatic; inward; maternal; incarnate; mighty; unbiased; natural; irrepressible; sustaining; struggling; feeblest; laborious; ennobling.

Verbs for Inspiration
conflict with—; derive—from; exhaust—; foster—; gain—; kill—; presage—; prar for—; preserve—; restore—; suppress—; whisper—; —cheers; —flags; —rallies; — seizes; —visits; —wells from.

Thesaurus
Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Aqua-Lung, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Geist, Helicon, Hippocrene, Melpomene, Muse, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, a priori knowledge, afflatus, air current, ambition, animating spirit, animation, animus, anticipation, apocalypse, ardor, arousal, artificial respiration, artistic imagination, aspiration, assurance, asthmatic wheeze, automatic response, awakening, basis, blind impulse, brain wave, brainchild, brainstorm, brainwave, breath, breath of air, breathing, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, broken wind, buddhi, calling, cause, clairvoyance, conception, consideration, cough, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, creativity, crosscurrent, current, current of air, daemon, daimonion, demon, direct apprehension, direct communication, divine afflatus, divine inspiration, divine revelation, downdraft, draft, drive, ebullience, education, elan, emboldening, encouragement, energy, enlightenment, enlivenment, enthusiasm, epiphany, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, exhalation, exhilaration, expiration, exsufflation, fall wind, fancy, feeling, fire, fire of genius, firing, flash, fleeting impulse, flow of air, following wind, gasp, genius, goal, good idea, ground, guide, guiding light, guiding star, gulp, gusto, gut response, hack, head wind, heartening, hiccup, ideal, illumination, immediate cognition, impulse, incentive, incitement, indraft, infection, inflow, influence, infusion, inhalation, inhalator, inhalement, inrush, insight, inspiriting, inspiritment, instinct, insufflation, intention, intuition, intuitionism, intuitive reason, intuitiveness, intuitivism, involuntary impulse, iron lung, jetstream, katabatic wind, knowledge without thought, lodestar, mainspring, matter, monsoon, motive, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, movement of air, moving spirit, muse, mystical experience, mysticism, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, natural impulse, notion, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, passion, poesy, poetic genius, poetic imagination, precognition, principle, prophecy, provocation, puff, quick hunch, reason, reassurance, reflex, respiration, revelation, sake, satori, score, scuba, second sight, second-sightedness, shaping imagination, sigh, sixth sense, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, soul, source, sparkle, spirit, spring, spur, sternutation, stertor, stimulation, stimulus, stream, stream of air, subconscious knowledge, subconscious perception, suck, sucking, suction, sudden thought, suggestion, suspiration, tail wind, talent, the Muses, theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, ulterior motive, undercurrent, unmediated perception, updraft, urge, vigor, vision, vocation, wheeze, wind, zeal

Etymology
From inspiration:, from  inspirationem: (nominative: inspiratio:), from  inspiratus: (past participle of inspiro:).

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, (het) inademen
 * Finnish: sisäänhengitys


 * German:
 * Russian: вдыхание, вдох
 * Serbian: udahnuti


 * Dutch: ,


 * Dutch:, (het) inademen


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: inspiratie
 * Finnish: inspiraatio, innoitus
 * German:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: вдохновение
 * Serbian: nadahnuće, zadahnuće , udahnuće
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: вдъхновение
 * Dutch: ingeving, inspiratie
 * German: göttliche Eingebung


 * Russian: вдохновение
 * Serbian: Bogonadahnutost

Noun

 * 1) inspiration
 * 2) a breath

Etymology
From inspirationem: (nominative: inspiratio:), from  inspiratus: (past participle of inspirare:).