Antonyms for Enlightenment
ɛnˈlaɪt n mənten·light·en·ment

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1. enlightenmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   epiphany, satori

2. enlightenmentnoun

   A 17th and 18th-century philosophical movement in European history; the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason emphasizing rationalism.

   Synonyms:
   satori, epiphany, Aufklärung

3. enlightenmentnoun

   A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.

   Synonyms:
   epiphany, satori

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1. enlightenment

   Enlightenment, erudition, information, knowledge, learning, and skill are acquired, as by study or practise. Insight, judgment, profundity or depth, reason, sagacity, sense, and understanding are native qualities of mind, tho capable of increase by cultivation. The other qualities are on the border-line. Wisdom has been defined as "the right use of knowledge," or "the use of the most important means for attaining the best ends," wisdom thus presupposing knowledge for its very existence and exercise. Wisdom is mental power acting upon the materials that fullest knowledge gives in the most effective way. There may be what is termed "practical wisdom" that looks only to material results; but in its full sense, wisdom implies the highest and noblest exercise of all the faculties of the moral nature as well as of the intellect. Prudence is a lower and more negative form of the same virtue, respecting outward and practical matters, and largely with a view of avoiding loss and injury; wisdom transcends prudence, so that while the part of prudence is ordinarily also that of wisdom, cases arise, as in the exigencies of business or of war, when the highest wisdom is in the disregard of the maxims of prudence. Judgment, the power of forming decisions, especially correct decisions, is broader and more positive than prudence, leading one to do, as readily as to refrain from doing; but judgment is more limited in range and less exalted in character than wisdom; to say of one that he displayed good judgment is much less than to say that he manifested wisdom. Skill is far inferior to wisdom, consisting largely in the practical application of acquired knowledge, power, and habitual processes, or in the ingenious contrivance that makes such application possible. In the making of something perfectly useless there may be great skill, but no wisdom. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; KNOWLEDGE; MIND; PRUDENCE; SAGACIOUS; SKILFUL.

   Compare synonyms for ABSURD; IDIOCY.

   Antonyms:
   absurdity, error, fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, misjudgment, nonsense, senselessness, silliness, stupidity

   Synonyms:
   attainment, depth, discernment, discretion, erudition, foresight, information, insight, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, prescience, profundity, prudence, reason, reason, reasonableness, sagacity, sense, skill, understanding, wisdom

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1. enlightenmentnoun

   education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

   Antonyms:
   unenlightenment

   Synonyms:
   nirvana

2. nirvana, enlightenmentnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   unenlightenment

   Synonyms:
   enlightenment, heaven, paradise, nirvana, promised land

3. Enlightenment, Age of Reasonnoun

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

   "the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms"

   Antonyms:
   unenlightenment

   Synonyms:
   nirvana

How to use Enlightenment in a sentence?

1. Nikola Tesla:

   Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.

2. Visions of Gregorian Chants:

   From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.

3. Henry Louis Mencken:

   The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

4. Salman Aziz:

   Getting degree only makes someone literate to the society or the nation. But sometime their uncultured acts make them illiterate. Cause they have uneducated mind. Their minds have never got enlightenment with the true education that supposed to make them better person.

5. Amit Ray:

   Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

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