Definition for
enlightenment
noun – The act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened; attainment or possession of intellectual light; used absolutely, a lighting up or enlargement of the understanding by means of acquired knowledge and wisdom; more narrowly, an illumination of the mind or acquisition of knowledge with regard to a particular subject or fact.
noun – [Tr. G. aufklärung.] Independence of thought; rationalism, especially the rationalism of the eighteenth century.
noun – Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
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noun – (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
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