Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pseudoenlightenment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pseu-doen-light-en-ment
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

False enlightenment.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[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.""

Etymology

From pseudo- + enlightenment.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pseudo-

Usage

Inflected Forms

pseudoenlightenments (plural)

Questions

What does pseudoenlightenment mean?: False enlightenment.
Where does pseudoenlightenment come from?: From pseudo- + enlightenment.

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