enlightenmentnoun [ U ]
uk/ɪnˈlaɪ.tən.mənt/us/ɪnˈlaɪ.t̬ən.mənt/the state of understanding something:
Can you give me any enlightenment on what happened?
in Hinduism and Buddhism, the highest spiritual state that can be achieved
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Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- realize
- take sth in
- twig
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