the intellectual thriving period in America in the mid-to-late 18th century (1715–1789), especially as it relates to American Revolution on the one hand and the European Enlightenment on the other hand. Enlightenment may refer to:
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- Age of Enlightenment, period in Western history and its corresponding movement
- Enlightenment (spiritual), a final blessed state free from ignorance, desire and suffering
- Enlightenment in Western secular tradition
- Enlightenment in Buddhism
- Ionian Enlightenment, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science
- Scottish Enlightenment, period in 18th century Scotland
- American Enlightenment, intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States
- Enlightenment in Poland, ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland
- Catholic Enlightenment, movement within Catholicism to find answers to the secularism of the Enlightenment
- Russian Enlightenment, a period in the eighteenth century in which the government in Russia began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences
- Enlightenment in Spain, Bourbon period of reform and 'enlightened despotism'
- Modern Greek Enlightenment, an 18th century national revival and educational movement in Greece
- Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century
- "Enlightenment", the main artistic performance in the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony
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