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enlightenment
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/ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt/
noun
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noun
A clearer understanding of something or spiritual knowledge.
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noun
Extra detailA 17th- and 18th-century European intellectual and cultural movement emphasizing rationalism. The period during which it flourished is called the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason.
Examples
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
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Also pronounced
- /-laɪtmənt/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
More examples
In contextEnlightenment is man's leaving his self-imposed immaturity.
1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 36 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN He first presented a complementary thesis on the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), in which he used the term “archaeology” for the first time, and which ind...
But the man who has attained enlightenment sees that the apparent reality is mere illusion, or, as was said a couple of thousand years later, that there is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
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Origin
noun
From enlighten + -ment.