Usually means: Sudden enlightenment in Zen Buddhism.
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  1. satori: Merriam-Webster
  2. satori: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. satori: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. satori: Collins English Dictionary
  5. satori: Vocabulary.com
  6. Satori, satori: Wordnik
  7. satori: Wiktionary
  8. satori: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. satori: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. satori: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. satori: Dictionary.com
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  13. satori: Rhymezone
  14. satori: FreeDictionary.org
  15. satori: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. satori: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. satori: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Satori: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Satori)

noun:  (uncountable, Zen Buddhism) A sudden inexpressible feeling of spiritual enlightenment or understanding, the result of meditation and study.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative) Enlightenment, epiphany.
noun:  (countable, biochemistry) A mutant gene of Drosophila, a genus of fruit flies, that causes homosexual behaviour in males (specifically, courtship directed to other males).
noun:  (Japanese mythology) A yokai (“supernatural monster”) having the form of a mind-reading monkey-like creature said to dwell in the mountains of the historical Japanese provinces of Hida and Mino (present-day Gifu Prefecture).
noun:  (Zen Buddhism) Alternative form of satori [(uncountable, Zen Buddhism) A sudden inexpressible feeling of spiritual enlightenment or understanding, the result of meditation and study.]

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