satori

noun4

1. •
   A sudden inexpressible feeling of spiritual awakening or enlightenment, the result of meditation and study.

   • "Slim your hips the Zen way," Juliana said. "Lose pounds through painless satori. I'm sorry, Miss Davis. I'm woolgathering." — 1962
2. •
   (figurative) Enlightenment, epiphany.
3. •
   A yokai (“supernatural monster”) having the form of a mind-reading monkey-like creature said to dwell in the mountains of the historical Japanese provinces of Hida and Mino (present-day Gifu Prefecture).

   • The Satori appears in [Toriyama] Sekien's Konjyaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki as a hairy, ape-like, mountain-dwelling creature that can read people's minds[…]. — 2010
4. •
   A mutant gene of Drosophila, a genus of fruit flies, that causes homosexual behaviour in males (specifically, courtship directed to other males).

   • In Drosophila the satori (sat) mutants of males do not court or copulate with females but have sexual interest in males. — 1998