Enlightenment
Enlightenment noun - Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge.
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Synonyms for Enlightenment
Thought and enlightenment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thought" instead a noun "Enlightenment".
Thought
Thought noun - A careful weighing of the reasons for or against something.
Enlightenment and thought are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Enlightenment" instead a noun "Thought".
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Related pairs
- understanding and enlightenment
- understanding and thought
- attention and enlightenment
- attention and thought
- study and enlightenment
- study and thought
- perception and enlightenment
- perception and thought
- inspiration and enlightenment
- inspiration and thought
- note and enlightenment
- note and thought
- notice and enlightenment
- notice and thought
How words are described
| individual | individual enlightenment | individual thought |
| many | many enlightenment | many thought |
| true | true enlightenment | true thought |
| intellectual | intellectual enlightenment | intellectual thought |
| Other adjectives: evil, political, final, scientific. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Vilani are harder to place; they are closer to strains of thought that existed long before either romanticism or enlightenment, resembling Confucianism in some ways.
Source: Romanticism Versus Enlightenment -
Senator Kreutzer, the Big Bad, certainly thought that opening the doors of perception using Mimezine was one of the first steps to enlightenment in the New Realist/Synthiotics paradigm.
Source: Series / Wild Palms -
Some koans deliberately use this as a way towards enlightenment by momentarily shorting out rational thought when the listener tries to understand it.
Source: Logic Bomb
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