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manifestation

UK/ˌmænɪfɛˈsteɪʃən/US/ˌmænɪfɛˈsteɪʃən/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #8,171 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: manifestations

A manifestation is a clear sign or appearance of something. A manifestation of the disease, an early manifestation, physical manifestation.

In medicine it is the standard word for how a condition shows itself, since the same illness can appear quite differently in two people. It also has a modern self-help sense about willing things into existence, which is a quite separate use.

Definitions of manifestation

  1. 1nounmanifestationA clear sign or appearance of something.C1

    “The rash was the first manifestation of the disease.”

manifestation is a sign.

Where it comes from

Latin manifestatio comes from manifestus, clear or evident, apparently from manus, a hand.

  1. Latin

    manifestātiō

  2. Middle English

    manifestacion

  3. English, today

    manifestation

From Middle English manifestacion, manyfestacion, manyfestacioun; from Latin manifestātiō. In the political sense, a manifestation. by surface analysis, en + manifest + ation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

manifestation in the wild

  • In primary movement disorders, the abnormal movement is the primary manifestation of the disorder.

    Movement disorder

  • In secondary movement disorders, the abnormal movement is a manifestation of another systemic or neurological disorder.

    Movement disorder

  • Bhuteshwar Temple is a Hindu temple in Jind, Haryana, in the series of 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra, dedicated to Bhuteshwar, a manifestation of Shiva.

    Bhuteshwar Temple

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.