aha moment

noun

, Informal.

a point in time, event, or experience when one has a sudden insight or realization:
My aha moment was when I put on my shorts from last summer and they didn’t fit.

aha moment

From the expression aha, used to signal sudden awareness or comprehension

“It was an aha moment for me and motivated the research,” Lee said.

Was there an “aha moment” when that balance clicked into place?

And in this aha moment, she explains in ways we all can understand what it must feel like to be transgendered.

"Aha moment" is quite old—our earliest citation is from a 1939 psychology text—but it was used only sporadically for a long time.

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