enlightenment
How many syllables in enlightenment?
There are 4 syllables in the word enlightenment.How to pronounce enlightenment:
Synonyms for enlightenment:
age of reason
awareness
broad-mindedness
comprehension
consciousness
cultivation
culture
development
edification
education
erudition
improvement
information
insight
instruction
knowledge
learning
literacy
nirvana
open-mindedness
reading
realization
refinement
scholarship
sophistication
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Antonyms for enlightenment:
absurdity
apathy
asininity
bad judgment
benightedness
bewilderment
blindness
brainlessness
bêtise
callowness
carelessness
cluelessness
confusion
craziness
daftness
denseness
destruction
detachment
dimness
disinterest
disregard
dopiness
dullness
dumbness
empty-headedness
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- delivery
- inexperienced
- livelihood
- anomalous
- ridiculous
- progressively
- obedient
- enthusiastic
- hedonism
- popularize
- ungratefully
- irritably
- anathema
- definitely
- intuitively
- demobilize
- perpetual
- adaptation
- incorrectly
- evanescent
- omnivorous
- kwashiorkor
- chaotically
- cacophony
- businessman
- inferior
- fibonacci
- manoeuvre
- italicize
- ayurveda
- Secilia
- obligation
- pied-a-terre
- preposition
- antecedent
- sabbatical
- perseverance
- suburbanite
- implausible
- contentious
- prerogative
- expatriate
- operetta
- multiplicand
- condolences
- insolently
- transferable
- coalescing
- replenishment
- literally
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