What is the meaning of Enlightenment?

noun

  • Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge.
  • Hinduism and Buddhism. ( the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness)
  • A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine.
    • usage: "the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms"
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