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Definition

a sudden realization — especially one of importance

Less commonly, as a proper noun Epiphany commemorates on January 6 the realization that Jesus was Son of God.

The struggle led to an epiphany.

epiphany = sudden realization

She described it as a religious epiphany.

epiphany = sudden realization

I had an epiphany that changed the course of my life.

epiphany = sudden realization

Edward refused to let me go for a second, dragging me along with him as he hunted up Jasper and then Carlisle to tell them of my epiphany.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

epiphany = sudden realization

It doesn't come in a flash, a sudden epiphany.
Nicola Yoon -- Everything, Everything

epiphany = sudden realization

A kind of epiphany filled her.
Stephen King -- Cujo

epiphany = sudden realization

A slow awakening as opposed to an epiphany.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains

epiphany = sudden realization

—with enough of an upturn at the tail end to make it sound like surprise, or like what I said has triggered a minor epiphany in him.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

epiphany = sudden realization

I think I'm having an epiphany here.
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon

epiphany = sudden realization

He knew not from where the epiphany came.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

epiphany = sudden realization

Our eyes locked in one of those shining moments of epiphany.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die

epiphany = sudden realization

But one day I had an epiphany.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

epiphany = sudden realization

For a moment, Langdon was back in Westminster Abbey, standing at Newton's pyramidical tomb, where he had experienced a similar epiphany.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol

epiphany = sudden realization

A place riddled with epiphanies, that's what it was.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld

epiphanies = sudden realizations

But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune, when my fathers self-satisfied existence had begun to crumble beneath him.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

epiphany = sudden realization

Later a minor epiphany was ours when we discovered that she had a dog tooth—a charming one to be sure—but a dog tooth nonetheless.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

epiphany = sudden realization

Find someone else to endure your frivolous poppycock and threadbare 'epiphanies.'
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

epiphanies = important and sudden realizations

It was in Philadelphia in the mid-1980s that I had an epiphany.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

epiphany = sudden realization

As Janice brainstormed aloud how they would save their son, Larry had an epiphany.
Eric Blehm -- Fearless

epiphany = sudden realization

Now, it seemed she would only have a few seconds, and in that realization came her epiphany.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

epiphany = sudden realization

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