Definitions For Enlightenment

noun

• Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
• A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
• The state of having knowledge or understanding : the act of giving someone knowledge or understanding
• A movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion
• A final spiritual state marked by the absence of desire or suffering