EGAVE

satori

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A sudden inexpressible feeling of spiritual awakening or enlightenment, the result of meditation and study.
  2. noun Enlightenment, epiphany.
  3. noun A mutant gene of Drosophila, a genus of fruit flies, that causes homosexual behaviour in males (specifically, courtship directed to other males).
  4. noun A yokai (“supernatural monster”) having the form of a mind-reading monkey-like creature said to dwell in the mountains of the historical Japanese provinces of Hida and Mino (present-day Gifu Prefecture).

Similar words

zenitude moment of clarity epiphany soto intuition peace that passeth understanding eureka moment light-bulb moment eureka effect innerstanding

Often followed by

is in and or experience of as can was

Word family

satoris

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