English
Noun
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Singular enlightenment |
Plural usually uncountable; plural enlightenments |
enlightenment (usually uncountable; plural enlightenments)
- An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
- A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.
- 1893, Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics:
- But the man who has attained enlightenment sees that the apparent reality is mere illusion, or, as was said a couple of thousand years later, that there is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
- 1893, Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics:
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