- the act of enlightening.
- the state of being enlightened: to live in spiritual enlightenment.
- prajna.
- a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.
- the act or means of enlightening or the state of being enlightened
- the awakening to ultimate truth by which man is freed from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations to which all men are otherwise subject
- a state of transcendent divine experience represented by Vishnu: regarded as a goal of all religion
- an 18th-century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason and the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions
