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Afflatus

noun
1.
A strong creative impulse; divine inspiration.





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"Afflatus" Quotes from Famous Books



... well defined. But if we pause to consider that the commercial subdivision of the electric current (which was virtually an invention made to order) involved the solution of problems so unprecedented that even they themselves had to be created, we cannot but conclude that the afflatus of innate genius played an important part in the unique methods of investigation instituted by Edison ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin


Words linked to "Afflatus" :   inspiration


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