pseudoenlightenment
pseudoenlightenment noun: false enlightenment.
Noun
pseudoenlightenment (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoenlightenments)
- 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.1984, Hal Himmelstein, Television Myth and the American Mind, New York, N.Y. […]: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 114
- 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).1991, Thomas Jackson Rice, “The Geometry of Meaning in Dubliners: A Euclidian Approach”, in Style, volume 25, number 1, DeKalb, I.L.: Northern Illinois University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 397
Forms of pseudoenlightenment
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Origin of pseudoenlightenment
From pseudo- + enlightenment.
Questions about pseudoenlightenment
- What does pseudoenlightenment mean?
- Pseudoenlightenment means false enlightenment.
- What part of speech is pseudoenlightenment?
- Pseudoenlightenment is a noun.
- What is the plural of pseudoenlightenment?
- The plural of pseudoenlightenment is pseudoenlightenments.
Words near pseudoenlightenment in the dictionary
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