enlightenment
71Enlightenment — Also called the Age of Reason, the name applied to an intellectual movement and zeitgeist which developed in western Europe during the seventeenth century and reached its height in the eighteenth. The common element was a trust in human reason …
72enlightenment — n. Instruction, illumination …
73enlightenment — noun (U) 1 formal the state of understanding something clearly or the act of making someone understand something clearly 2 the state in the buddhist and hindu religions, of no longer having any human desires, so that you are united spiritually… …
74enlightenment — n 1. understanding, wisdom, sapience, (usu. cap.) Buddhism. prajna; comprehension, awareness, insight, perception, sensitivity; open mind edness, broad mindedness, freedom of thought, appreciation; learning, knowledge, lore, information, skill;… …
75enlightenment — en·light·en·ment …
76enlightenment — noun Syn: insight, understanding, awareness, education, learning, knowledge, illumination, awakening, instruction, teaching, open mindedness, broad mindedness, culture, refinement, cultivation, civilization …
77enlightenment — /ɛnˈlaɪtnmənt/ (say en luytnmuhnt), /ən / (say uhn ) noun 1. the act of enlightening. 2. the state of being enlightened. 3. (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the condition that revelation brings to the believer who has striven for its attainment, making …
78Enlightenment — /ɛnˈlaɪtnmənt/ (say en luytnmuhnt), /ən / (say uhn ) noun the, an 18th century rationalist philosophical movement …
79enlightenment — This word (derived from Old English, meaning to remove blindness either from one s eyes or from one s mind) is commonly used to describe the process in Eastern religions of transcending earthly desires and human suffering in order to achieve a …
80enlightenment — Aokanaka, mālamalama …
