Quickening
/ˈkwɪk(ə)nɪŋ/ ◊ adjective
The awakening or activation of dormant potentiality, particularly the enlivening of what has been latent or sleeping. Sometimes experienced physiologically as frisson, a quickening marks a moment in which possibility (or ‘calling’) becomes vital movement toward actualisation.
See: activating, embeckoning, insight
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