flash of genius
Momentary intellectual breakthrough
A flash of genius is a sudden burst of brilliant insight or creative inspiration—the moment when a solution or idea arrives all at once, seemingly from nowhere.
The phrase suggests that genius sometimes works not through gradual effort but through instantaneous illumination: The design came to her in a flash of genius while she was in the shower.
- eurekaDiscovery triumph cry
- aha momentSudden flash of understanding
- lightbulbElectric illumination source
- light bulb momentSudden moment of realization
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
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- epiphaniesepiphany, aha moment, eureka, aha, lightbulb moment