Other forms: inspirations
Inspiration is something that fills you with the urge to create or act. A sudden inspiration, find inspiration, a source of inspiration.
Waiting for it is the classic mistake — working writers and painters describe it as something that arrives during the work rather than before it. In medicine, inspiration is breathing in, which is the literal Latin sense: to breathe into.
1nouninspirationSomething that fills you with the urge to create or act.
“The artist said the sea was her greatest inspiration.”
2noundrawingThe drawing of breath into the lungs.
“The doctor heard a faint crackle in her chest at the end of each deep inspiration.”
inspiration is a stimulus, or a breath.
Latin inspiratio comes from inspirare, to breathe into — in plus spirare, to breathe. Spirit is the same breath.
Latin
īnspīrātiōnem
Old French
inspiration
Middle English
inspiracioun
English, today
inspiration
From Middle English inspiracioun, from Old French inspiration, from Latin īnspīrātiōnem (nominative: īnspīrātiō), from Latin īnspīrātus (past participle of inspīrō). by surface analysis, inspire + -ation. Displaced native onbryrdnes.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA