EPIPHANY (Noun)
Meaning- 1) A Christian
festival held on January 6 in honor of the coming of the three kings to the
infant Jesus Christ.
2) A sudden appearance
especially of a deity.
3) A
moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear
way.
Mnemonic trick- The word epiphany contains word
‘epi’ and ‘phany’. ‘epi’ sounds similar to happy and ‘phany’ sounds similar to
phenomena. Its epiphany that this phenomenon has occurred and I got happy.
Therefore, epiphany means a moment in which you suddenly see or understand
something in a new or very clear way.
Uses-
- She got to know that she was an adopted child of her parents. It was an epiphany that changed her attitude toward her parents.
- Report came and she got to know that her eye sight would come back after surgery. It was an epiphany that brought euphoria.
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