apotheosis

Meaning

Noun

• The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
• Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
• A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
• The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).
• Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.
• The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.

Origin

• From Latin apotheōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποθέωσις, from verb ἀποθεόω (factitive verb formed from θεός with intensive prefix ἀπο-) + -σις. Surface analysis apo- + -theo-.