1 [U] knowledge about and understanding of sth; the process of understanding sth or making sb understand it:
The newspapers provided little enlightenment about the cause of the accident. * cultural / spiritual enlightenment
2 (the Enlightenment) [sing.] the period in the 18th century when many writers and scientists began to argue that science and reason were more important than religion and tradition
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