Aufklärung
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Aufklärung (“enlightenment; Enlightenment”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]the Aufklärung
- (history) The Enlightenment.[1]
Translations
[edit]the Enlightenment — see Enlightenment
Noun
[edit]Aufklärung (plural Aufklärungen)
- (philosophy) An enlightenment.
- (sometimes derogatory)[1] Illuminism; the aims, manner, spirit, etc. of the Aufklärer.[1]
Quotations
[edit]- 1998, Bram Stoker's Dracula[1], page 109:
- […] nor is it the embodiment of the various Aufklärungen by which his cultural torchbearers, like the sacrificed Winckelmann of The Renaissance, had hoped to illuminate pockets of lingering Gothic darkness.
Translations
[edit]enlightenment — see enlightenment
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈaʊ̯fˌklɛːʁuŋ/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
- IPA(key): /-ˌkleː-/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
Audio (Germany (Berlin)): (file) - Hyphenation: Auf‧klä‧rung
Noun
[edit]Aufklärung f (genitive Aufklärung, plural Aufklärungen)
- the act of enlightening; an instance of enlightening
- 1783, Immanuel Kant, Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?:
- Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit.
- Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity.
- (history) the Enlightenment
- ellipsis of sexuelle Aufklärung or Sexualaufklärung (“sex education”)
- clarification, as of a criminal case, mystery, etc.
- elucidation
- cipher services; intelligence
- (military) reconnaissance unit
Declension
[edit]Declension of Aufklärung [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Aufklärung | die | Aufklärungen |
| genitive | einer | der | Aufklärung | der | Aufklärungen |
| dative | einer | der | Aufklärung | den | Aufklärungen |
| accusative | eine | die | Aufklärung | die | Aufklärungen |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Aufklärung” in Duden online
- “Aufklärung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Aufklärung.
Noun
[edit]Aufklärung (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “Aufklärung”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
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