English-Thai Dictionary

enlightenment

N การตรัสรู้  ความเห็นแจ้ง  การ รู้แจ้งเห็นจริง  kan-trad-sa-ru

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ENLIGHTENMENT

ENLIGHTENMENT En *light "en *ment, n.

 

Defn: Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

enlightenment

en light en ment |enˈlītnmənt ɪnˈlaɪtnmənt | ▶noun 1 the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened: Robbie looked to me for enlightenment. • the action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular (in Buddhism ) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth. 2 ( the Enlightenment ) a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th -century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

 

Oxford Dictionary

enlightenment

en |light ¦en |ment |ɪnˈlʌɪt (ə )nm (ə )nt, ɛn- | ▶noun 1 [ mass noun ] the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened: Robbie looked to me for enlightenment. • the action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular (in Buddhism ) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth. 2 ( the Enlightenment ) a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th -century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent figures included Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

enlightenment

enlightenment noun sharing her musical enlightenment with her children: insight, understanding, awareness, wisdom, education, learning, knowledge; illumination, awakening, instruction, teaching; sophistication, advancement, development, open-mindedness, broad-mindedness; culture, refinement, cultivation, civilization.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

enlightenment

enlightenment noun the reader will be hoping for enlightenment from the text: understanding, insight, education, learning, knowledge, awareness, information, erudition, wisdom, instruction, teaching; illumination, light, edification, awakening; culture, refinement, cultivation, civilization, sophistication, advancement, development, liberalism, open-mindedness, broad-mindedness. ANTONYMS ignorance; benightedness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

enlightenment

en l í ght en ment 名詞 U 1 ｟かたく ｠啓発, 教化 .2 (仏教 ヒンドゥー教の )悟り .3 〖the E- 〗(18世紀ヨーロッパの )啓蒙 （けいもう ）主義 (運動 ).