Translation phrase for "a moment of enlightenment or truth"

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Permalink Reply by James H Smith on August 23, 2010 at 9:58am

Am I being simplistic with:-

un moment d'éclaircissement ou vérité.

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Permalink Reply by don hoffend on August 23, 2010 at 5:39pm

phonetically, something like: day-nu-mon ?

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on August 23, 2010 at 6:29pm

There's a word dénouement, occasionally used in English, but this really means "end", "solution" (as in "an end to the crisis", or "the play's ending was surprising"). I'm not so sure about the interpretation of "moment of enlightenment" as such-- I suppose very occasionally that might work, but it's not the basic meaning of the word.

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EducatorPermalink Reply by stu harris on August 25, 2010 at 9:50pm

Surely dénouement literally means untying the knot -- so figuratively, it's the moment of resolution of a problem, conflict, crisis... and this is its normal usage.

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on August 25, 2010 at 11:05pm

Mmmmaybe -- but I'm not sure things actually happened that way round (i.e. I'm not sure that dénouement is really used much in any "literal" sense of untying -- I think it just derives directly from dénouer already in its figurative sense).

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Permalink Reply by Ian Jones on August 26, 2010 at 6:08pm

How about 'épiphanie'

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