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enlightenment | education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | |
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nirvana, enlightenment | [in hinduism] the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | |
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Age of Reason, Enlightenment | a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine |