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Noun: Age of Enlightenment
  1. A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine
    "the Age of Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms";
    - Enlightenment, Age of Reason

Type of: age, historic period, reform movement

Encyclopedia: Age of Enlightenment