Dictionary Definition
inspiration
Noun
1 arousal of the mind to special unusual activity
or creativity
2 a product of your creative thinking and work;
"he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists";
"after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality" [syn:
brainchild]
3 a sudden intuition as part of solving a
problem
4 (theology) a special influence of a divinity on
the minds of human beings; "they believe that the books of
Scripture were written under divine guidance" [syn: divine
guidance]
5 arousing to a particular emotion or action
[syn: stirring]
6 the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or
other gases) as in breathing [syn: inhalation, aspiration, breathing
in]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.
- 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.
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
stimulating influence upon the intellect or
emotions
- German: Inspiration
- Portuguese: inspiração
- Spanish: inspiración
References
1913}}French
Etymology
From inspirationem (nominative: inspiratio), from inspiratus (past participle of inspirare).Noun
Extensive Definition
Inspiration may refer to: Personal
inspiration, A person can have an idol, the idol can have a
skill that the idolator wants.> Artistic
inspiration, sudden creativity in artistic production
- Revelation, an uncovering or disclosure of something hidden via communication from the divine
- Biblical inspiration, the doctrine in Judeo-Christian theology concerned with the divine origin of the Bible
- Inhalation, the movement of air into the lungs
- Inspiration
Software, a developer and publisher of visual learning software
- Inspiration (computer program), a visual learning software tool published by Inspiration Software
- BT Inspiration, a telephone switchboard
- Inspiration CCR, a make of scuba diving rebreather
In music:
- "Inspire (Ayumi Hamasaki song)," released in 2004
- Inspiration (Elkie Brooks album), released in 1989
- Inspiration (Yngwie J. Malmsteen album), released in 1996
- Inspiration (Aziza Mustafa Zadeh album), released in 2000
- Inspiration (William Hung album), released in 2004
- Inspiration (Shinhwa album), released in 2006
In film:
- Inspiration (film), a 1915 film starring Audrey Munson
See also
Inspiration comes from life experiences,
feelings, dreams, and thoughts. Inspiration is what makes great
things happen.
inspiration in Danish: Inspiration
inspiration in German: Inspiration
inspiration in Spanish: Inspiración
inspiration in French: Inspiration
inspiration in Japanese: インスパイア
inspiration in Norwegian:
Inspirasjon
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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