afflatus
/əˈfleɪtəs
/noun formal
A divine creative impulse or inspiration.His playing has the afflatus of genius and the purity of a child....
- That's an ambitious enterprise and, regrettably, the work is let down from achieving such divine afflatus by sloppy editing and far too many solecisms.
- But, though less than a poet of her century, Ella was more than a mere multiplier of her kind, and latterly she had begun to feel the old afflatus once more.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin, from the verb afflare, from ad- 'to' + flare 'to blow'.