enlightenment

enlightenment is a valid 13-letter word worth 19 points in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends.

Meaning

What does enlightenment mean?

  • noun

    a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

  • noun

    (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

  • noun

    education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

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