say it: man-uh-feh-STAY-shuhn
manifestation is a noun meaning "a clear appearance". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a clear appearance
“a manifestation of great emotion”
a manifest indication of the existence or presence or nature of some person or thing
“a manifestation of disease”
an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit)
expression without words
“tears are an expression of grief”
“the pulse is a reflection of the heart's condition”
a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)
“there were violent demonstrations against the war”
politics
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 manifestation 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.