Enlightenment

Quick meaning: Enlightenment is a noun meaning An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

Meaning

An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

More Meanings

1. A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.

Example Sentences

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.

Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

Word Forms

• enlightenments
• enlightment

Synonyms for enlightenment

Depending on context, synonyms include epiphany, bodhi, nirvana, satori, zen.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include epiphany, awareness, intelligence, elucidation, explanation, information.

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