Afflatus

Quick meaning: Afflatus is a noun meaning A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence.

Meaning

A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence.

Example Sentences

divine afflatus

We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece,—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus, and touched the high level of the best.

He used to gallop Rebecca over the neighbouring Dumpling Downs, or into the county town, which, if you please, we shall call Chatteris, spouting his own poems, and filled with quite a Byronic afflatus as he thought.

[…] Men acted by seducing spirits: for πνεύματα doth often signify the impulses or afflatuses of good or evil spirits; […] You are zealous, πνευματων, of spiritual gifts, or afflatuses, and so throughout the chapter; […]

Word Forms

• afflatuses

Synonyms for afflatus

Depending on context, synonyms include afflation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inspiration, genius, impulsion, spiriting, ideaphoria, brainwave.

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