enlightenment

See also Enlightenment

English

Noun

enlightenment (usually uncountable; plural enlightenments)

1. An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
2. 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.

Synonyms

• epiphany
• satori

Translations

act of enlightening, state of being enlightened

• Arabic: تنوير (ar) (tanwiir) m
• Bulgarian: просвета (bg) (prosveta) f
• Czech: osvícení (cs) n
• Dutch: verlichting (nl)
• Finnish: valaistuminen (fi)
• German: Aufklärung (de) f

• Hungarian: megvilágosodás (hu)
• Italian: illuminismo (it)
• Khmer: ការត្រាស់ដឹង (km) (kar tras dueng)
• Macedonian: просветлување (mk) (prosvetlúvanje) n, просвета (mk) (prósveta) f
• Russian: просветление (ru) (prosvetlenie) f
• Serbian: prosvetljenje n
• Welsh: goleuedigaeth (cy) f

philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge

• Bulgarian: просвещение (bg) (prosveštenie) n
• Finnish: valistus (fi)

• French: illumination (fr)
• Hungarian: megvilágosodás (hu)
• Macedonian: просветителство (mk) (prosvetítelstvo) n
• Welsh: goleuedigaeth (cy) f