ALL meanings of the enlightenment
- noun the enlightenment an 18th-century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason and the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions 0
- noun the enlightenment a mainly 18th-cent. European philosophical movement characterized by a reliance on reason and experience rather than dogma and tradition and by an emphasis on humanitarian political goals and social progress 0
- noun the enlightenment the period of this movement 0