Enlightenment
Enlightenment noun - Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge.
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Synonyms for Enlightenment
Reading and enlightenment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reading" instead a noun "Enlightenment".
Reading
Reading noun - A presentation of an artistic work (as a piece of music) from a particular point of view.
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Synonyms for Reading
Enlightenment and reading are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Enlightenment" instead a noun "Reading".
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Related pairs
- understanding and enlightenment
- understanding and reading
- study and enlightenment
- study and reading
- perception and enlightenment
- perception and reading
- lesson and enlightenment
- lesson and reading
- culture and enlightenment
- culture and reading
- education and enlightenment
- education and reading
- knowledge and enlightenment
- knowledge and reading
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- More like "Jack of all trades; master of none." Some forms of "real" Tarot reading portray the whole deck (or at least the picture cards) as representing The Fool's journey to enlightenment.
Source: The Fool / Tabletop Games -
In recent years, scholars such as Robert Darnton in The Literary Underground of the Old Regime have demonstrated that the Enlightenment was not merely a bunch of aristocrats in salons reading the works on the Vatican Index for private amusement.
Source: Useful Notes / The Enlightenment -
Sieyès was by most accounts not a believer, he saw the Church as a career and spent most of his years studying and perusing books of prominent authors of The Enlightenment, reading up on political theory and philosophy, becoming a brilliant scholar and intellectual.
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