Enlightenment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enlightenment \En*light"en*ment\, n.
     1. Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or
        instructed.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. same as {Aufkl[aum]rung}.


        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enlightenment
       n 1: education that results in understanding and the spread of
            knowledge [ant: {unenlightenment}]
       2: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the
          cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of
          desire and suffering and individual consciousness [syn: {Nirvana}]
       3: a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of
          reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social
          institutions [syn: {Age of Reason}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  146 Moby Thesaurus words for "enlightenment":
     accomplishments, account, acculturation, acquaintance,
     acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, allegorization,
     announcement, arc lighting, attainments, awakening,
     black and white, blue book, briefing, bulletin, catechization,
     chiaroscuro, civility, civilization, clarification, coaching,
     communication, communique, contrast, cracking, cultivation,
     culture, data, datum, debunking, decipherment, decoding,
     decorative lighting, demonstration, demythologization, didactics,
     direct lighting, direction, directory, disappointment,
     disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, dispatch,
     edification, editing, education, electric lighting, elucidation,
     emendation, enculturation, euhemerism, evidence, exegesis,
     exemplification, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding,
     facts, factual information, familiarization, festoon lighting,
     floodlighting, fluorescent lighting, gaslighting, gen,
     general information, glow lighting, guidance, guidebook, handout,
     hard information, highlights, illumination, illustration,
     incandescent lighting, incidental information, indirect lighting,
     info, information, instruction, intelligence, irradiation,
     knowledge, learning, liberal education, light, light and shade,
     lighting, mention, message, notice, notification,
     overhead lighting, pedagogics, pedagogy, polish, presentation,
     private teaching, programmed instruction, promotional material,
     proof, publication, publicity, radiation, rationale, reason,
     reeducation, refinement, release, report, return to reality,
     rude awakening, schooling, self-instruction, self-teaching,
     sidelight, simplification, socialization, solution, sophistication,
     spoon-feeding, spot lighting, stage lighting, statement,
     store of knowledge, strip lighting, teaching, the dope, the goods,
     the know, the scoop, tonality, transmission, tuition, tutelage,
     tutorage, tutoring, tutorship, undeception, unlocking, unspelling,
     white book, white paper, word