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enlightenment   (TTS Sound)

The noun enlightenment has 3 senses

• enlightenment -- (education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge)


• nirvana, enlightenment -- ((Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness)


• Enlightenment, Age of Reason -- (a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine; "the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms")