BENIGHTEDNESS Antonyms

• socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners

• (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)

• a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

• the process of fostering the growth of something

• the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)

• the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

• the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

• knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

• the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

• the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

• education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

• a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

• a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination

• the degree of visibility of your environment

• an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding

• the luminous flux incident on a unit area

• painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)

• the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

• uplifting enlightenment

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

• the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

• falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies