Pseudoenlightenment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    False enlightenment. countable, uncountable

    "[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."

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"[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."

Etymology

From pseudo- + enlightenment.

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