- enlightenment - education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
--1 is a kind of education
Antonyms: unenlightenment
--1 has particulars: edification, sophistication; satoriDerived form: verb enlighten1 - Nirvana, enlightenment - (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
--2 is a kind of blessedness, beatitude, beatification
- Enlightenment, Age of Reason - a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
--3 is a kind of reform movement