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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
    - Enlightenment, Age of Reason

Type of: age, historic period, reform movement

Encyclopedia: Age of Enlightenment