enlightenment
State of being enlightened.
Old English and Middle English
State of being enlightened.
noun [ en-LIGHT-en-ment ]
The action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened, especially in a spiritual or intellectual context.
- 🖊️ Had he known the path to enlightenment, he would have taken it without hesitation.
- 🖊️ In the stillness of dawn, she found enlightenment.
- 🖊️ The monk's serene smile was a testament to his enlightenment.
- 🖊️ If only the world could reach a state of enlightenment, wars might cease to exist.
- 🖊️ The Age of Enlightenment brought forth a wave of intellectual and cultural growth in Europe.
- 🖊️ The journey to enlightenment is often paved with trials and tribulations.
- 🖊️ Can one truly achieve enlightenment in a world so full of distractions?
- 🤝 illumination, insight, awareness
- ⚔️ ignorance, darkness, obscurity
18th-century intellectual movement.
noun [ en-LIGHT-en-ment ]
A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton.
- 🖊️ In the age of enlightenment, reason and science began to illuminate the dark corners of ignorance.
- 🖊️ Voltaire, a beacon of the Enlightenment, once said, 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'
- 🖊️ If the Enlightenment had not occurred, would we still be shackled by the chains of superstition and dogma?
- 🤝 Age of Reason, Renaissance, modernism
- ⚔️ Middle Ages, medievalism