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means The act of making something unseen—a desire, an idea—become visible and real through intention, belief, or sheer insistence.

from From Latin manifestus, meaning 'caught in the act' or 'palpable, obvious' — likely a fusion of manus (hand) and a root related to 'striking,' so the oldest sense is something like 'hit with the hand,' hence 'obvious as a slap.' The word entered English meaning simply 'to show plainly,' used for centuries in ordinary contexts — ship manifests, manifesting symptoms. The vision-board, think-it-into-being sense is a modern graft onto old, sturdy roots.