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inspiration

noun

1 inspiration

Arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity.

Roget 976: Deity, Divinity; Godhead, Godship; Omnipotence, Providence; Heaven (metonymically). [Quality of being divine] divineness, divinity.    God, Lord, Jehovah, ... show more

Roget 515: imagination; originality; invention; fancy; inspiration; verve.    warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, ... show more

Roget 612: impulse, sudden thought; impromptu, improvisation; inspiration, flash, spurt.    improvisatore; creature of impulse.   

Roget 615: motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action.    reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring, primum mobile [Lat.], keystone; the why and the wherefore; ... show more

Roget 821: feeling; suffering etc. v.; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response; sympathy etc. (love) 897; ... show more

Roget 824: excitation of feeling; mental excitement; suscitation, galvanism, stimulation, piquance, piquancy, provocation, inspiration, calling forth, infection; animation, agitation, perturbation; ... show more

Roget 985: revelation, inspiration, afflatus; theophany, theopneusty.    Word, Word of God; Scripture; the Scriptures, the Bible; Holy Writ, Holy Scriptures; inspired writings, Gospel.    ... show more

Roget 498: intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe [U.S.], savvy [U.S.]; intellect etc. 450; nous [Fr.], parts, sagacity, mother wit, ... show more

Roget 987: piety, religion, theism, faith; religiousness, holiness etc. adj.; saintship; religionism; sanctimony etc. (assumed piety) 988; ... show more

Polish: natchnienie, trans, wena

2 inspiration

A product of your creative thinking and work:
— He had little respect for the inspirations of other artists.

synonym: brainchild.

Dutch: idee, schepping, geesteskind, geestesproduct, geestesprodukt

3 inspiration

A sudden intuition as part of solving a problem.

4 inspiration

theology A special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings.

synonym: divine guidance.

5 inspiration

Arousing to a particular emotion or action.

synonym: stirring.

Polish: natchnienie, inspiracja

6 inspiration

The act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing.

synonyms: aspiration, breathing in, inhalation, intake.

Dutch: aspiratie, inademing, inhalatie
Polish: wdech


Moby 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 ... show more.

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