enlightenment

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)An act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
2. (uncountable, usually)A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.

   “But the man who has attained enlightenment sees that the apparent reality is mere illusion, or, as was said a couple of thousand years later, that there is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so.”

   “Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.”

name

1. A 17th- and 18th-century European intellectual and cultural movement emphasizing rationalism. The period during which it flourished is called the Age of Enlightenment or Age of Reason.
2. Synonym of Age of Enlightenment.