Epiphany

Noun

 * 1) A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.
 * 2) An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.
 * 3)  Season or time of the Christian church year from the Epiphany feast day to Mardi Gras (Shrove Tuesday), the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent (See Epiphany).

Synonyms

 * satori
 * enlightenment

Thesaurus 1
Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Good Friday, Halloween, Hallowmas, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Lady Day, Lammas, Lammas Day, Lammastide, Lent, Lententide, Mardi Gras, Martinmas, Maundy Thursday, Michaelmas, Michaelmas Day, Michaelmastide, Palm Sunday, Pancake Day, Passion Week, Pentecost, Quadragesima, Quadragesima Sunday, Septuagesima, Shrove Tuesday, Trinity Sunday, Twelfth-day, Twelfth-tide, Whit-Tuesday, White Sunday, Whitmonday, Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whitsuntide, Whitweek

Thesaurus 2
Christophany, Satanophany, afflatus, angelophany, apocalypse, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, direct communication, discernibleness, disclosure, dissemination, divine inspiration, divine revelation, embodiment, emergence, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, forthcoming, incarnation, indication, inspiration, issuance, manifestation, materialization, materializing, mystical experience, mysticism, observability, occurrence, opening, outcrop, outcropping, perceptibility, pneumatophany, presentation, proof, prophecy, publication, realization, revelation, rise, rising, seeableness, showing, showing forth, the seen, the visible, theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, unfolding, unfoldment, visibility, visibleness, visuality, what is revealed

Etymology
From epiphanie: from  epiphania: from  ἐπιφάνεια: from ἐπιφαίνω: from ἐπί: + φαίνω:. English Epiphany (of Christ) since the 14th century, generic use since the 17th century.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 主顯節, 主显节
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * German: Erscheinung,, Manifestation, Epiphanie


 * Greek: επιφάνεια, θεοφάνεια
 * Japanese: エピファニー, 公現祭
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: явление, богоявление
 * Spanish: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 頓悟, 顿悟, 洞察, 領悟, 领悟
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: epifanie, ingeving


 * French:
 * German: Erleuchtung, Heureka-Moment,
 * Japanese: 洞察
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: