enlightenment

  • 11enlightenment — I noun appreciation, awakening, clarification, cognition, cognizance, comprehension, direction, disabusal, disclosure, edification, education, elucidation, enucleation, experience explication, explanation, familiarity, illumination, insight,… …

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  • 12Enlightenment — es un ligero entorno de escritorio para UNIX y GNU/Linux. Es muy configurable y visualmente es muy atractivo …

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  • 13enlightenment — [n] awareness, understanding broad mindedness, civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, open mindedness, refinement, sophistication, teaching,… …

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  • 14enlightenment — /en luyt n meuhnt/, n. 1. the act of enlightening. 2. the state of being enlightened: to live in spiritual enlightenment. 3. (usually cap.) Buddhism, Hinduism. prajna. 4. the Enlightenment, a philosophical movement of the 18th century,… …

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  • 15ENLIGHTENMENT —    1) a movement characterized by the historian TROELTSCH (1865 1923) as the beginning of the really modern period of European CULTURE. It had its roots in PROTESTANT CHRISTIANITY and was strongly influenced by PIETISM finding its clearest… …

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  • 16enlightenment — [[t]ɪnla͟ɪt(ə)nmənt[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Enlightenment means the act of enlightening or the state of being enlightened. Stella had a moment of enlightenment. 2) N UNCOUNT In Buddhism, enlightenment is a final spiritual state in which everything is… …

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  • 17Enlightenment —    A broad philosophical and cultural movement in Europe and North America (c. 1650 1789), the Enlightenment was characterised by an exaltation of universal human reason, autonomy and individualism, coupled with a distrust of tradition. Heralded… …

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  • 18Enlightenment — noun A 17th and 18th century philosophical movement in European history; the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason emphasizing rationalism. He first presented a complementary<! [sic] thesis on the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant… …

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  • 19Enlightenment — The period of European thought characterized by the emphasis on experience and reason, mistrust of religion and traditional authority, and a gradual emergence of the ideals of liberal, secular, democratic societies. In England the movement can be …

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  • 20Enlightenment — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Enlightenment, les Lumières anglaises, voir Lumières (philosophie) ; Enlightenment, le gestionnaire de fenêtres. Catégorie : Homonymie …

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