EMANATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emanation mean? 

• EMANATION (noun)
  The noun EMANATION has 3 senses:

1. something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.)

2. the act of emitting; causing to flow forth

3. (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

  Familiarity information: EMANATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMANATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("emanation" is a kind of...):

matter (that which has mass and occupies space)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emanation"):

ectoplasm ((spiritualism) a substance supposed to emanate from the body of the medium during a trance)

Derivation:

emanate (give out (breath or an odor))

emanate (proceed or issue forth, as from a source)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of emitting; causing to flow forth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

emanation; emission

Hypernyms ("emanation" is a kind of...):

egress; egression; emergence (the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emanation"):

radiation (the act of spreading outward from a central source)

discharge; venting (the act of venting)

Derivation:

emanate (give out (breath or an odor))

emanate (proceed or issue forth, as from a source)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

emanation; procession; rise

Context example:

the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son

Hypernyms ("emanation" is a kind of...):

inception; origin; origination (an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events)

Domain category:

theological system; theology (a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings)

 Context examples 

From the man's distorted body and twisted mind, in occult ways, like mists rising from malarial marshes, came emanations of the unhealth within.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was an emanation of her spirit, a pure and gracious crystallization of her divine essence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)