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pseudoenlightenment

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + enlightenment.

  1. inherited from inlīhtan
  2. inherited from enlightenen
  3. suffixed as enlightenment — “enlighten + ment”
  4. prefixed as pseudoenlightenment — “pseudo- + enlightenment”

Definitions

  1. False enlightenment.

    • [T]he social construct of the good life is manifest in these works—an urban American vision framed by the achievements of commerce and of the new pluralist pseudoenlightenment of equal opportunity.
    • His culminating vision is a pseudoenlightenment, contaminated by his unaltered egoism: "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity" (35; emphasis mine).
    • One such audience member, catching a ray of pseudoenlightenment, realizes that watching a woman bash people to death for three years has turned him into "a feminist."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA