apotheosis
/uh-poth-ee-OH-siss/nounthe highest point of development; elevation to divine status
“The final aria is the apotheosis of the composer's late style.”
- Synonyms
- culmination, peak, deification
- Antonyms
- nadir, low point
- Root
- theo- (god)
- Memory hook
- apo + theos (god): raised up to the gods.
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