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say it: in-spur-AY-shuhn
inspiration is a noun meaning "arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity". It is pronounced /ˌɪnspɚˈeɪʃən/ — in-spur-AY-shuhn. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a product of your creative thinking and work
“he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists”
“after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality”
a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
(theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings
“they believe that the books of Scripture were written under divine guidance”
theology
the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inspiration come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.