Revelask (n.) — the quiet sorrow of finally standing before something vast and possibly divine, only to find yourself asking something banal. The hollow echo of a question too small for the occasion. A misplaced wish at the wishing well. A deep metaphysical vertigo, like the feeling you’ve been preparing your whole life for a moment of revelation, but when it finally arrives, all you can do is ask if it’s going to rain tomorrow.

Revelask is a portmanteau drawing from:

• Revelation – from Latin revelatio, meaning "a disclosure" or "unveiling," suggesting the divine or the profound made visible.

• Ask – Old English ascian, meaning "to seek, inquire, request." But in this context, it carries a tinge of awkwardness or inadequacy.