Afflatus
WordNet
noun
(1) A strong creative impulse; divine inspiration
"Divine afflatus"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From , past participle of . Parallel to
Noun
- A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence.
Quotations
- 44 B.C.: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus (Nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit. De Natura Deorum II.167)
- 1949: H. L. Mencken, The Divine Afflatus