enlightenment
en·ligh·ten·ment
noun
1.
education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
2.
(Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
Origin
From enlighten + -ment.
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