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Meaning of sleepiphany | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
/slɪˈpɪf.ə.ni/

Definitions

An illuminating realization or discovery revealed in a dream or during sleep.

Examples

“Von den Vorschlägen rest-creational activity, ennightenment, indreamuity, daybreakthrough, temporeverie, dozepiphany, sleeplution, somnolution, hypknowsis, hypnosynthesis, sleepiphany, twilightenment und einigen weiteren bevorzuge ich ennightenment und dozepiphany.”
“If nothing else, this list might explain why I shun webinars and go to bed every night hoping for a sleepiphany. And the people I know on Twitter are my friends. Don’t even think about calling them tweeple.”
“I had, if you will, a sleepiphany. I had achieved third-trimester pregnancy nirvana — a heavenly, pain-free night of sleep.”
“Alan J. Rocke, in his book Image and Reality, describes several great thinkers who have experienced the Eureka, a Pentecost or outpouring of the spirit, the aha moment, a “semi-hypnagogic state”, or “sleepiphany” and “ennightenment.””

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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