What's the difference between enlightenment and illusion?

Enlightenment


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Kalachakra Puja takes place in the eastern state of Bihar at the holy Bodhgaya site, where the Buddha gained enlightenment.
  • (2) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
  • (3) Society now takes a more enlightened, community-based approach for people like my daughter.
  • (4) The study was aimed at the enlightenment of intracortical spreading mechanisms in focal epileptic seizures produced by local application of Acetylcholine.
  • (5) Surjit S Bhalla, a Delhi-based consultant and former World Bank economist, said the British decision was "enlightened".
  • (6) With careful and enlightened use, pesticide toxicity, to both man and the environment, could be significantly reduced.
  • (7) Marginalised and wronged groups have been able to use online campaigns to usher us all forward into a more enlightened era in which we are more open-minded about the LGBQT community, disability, race, religion and so forth.
  • (8) These data provide further enlightenment regarding the mechanisms of the well-preserved functional capacity noted in these patients.
  • (9) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
  • (10) In the time of enlightenment more and more people thought, that very much cases of suicide were committed in severe illness.
  • (11) Possible causes have to be seen in long time of hospitalisation (average = 304 days), and apparent inadequate enlightenment of patients and in functionally and cosmetically insufficiencies.
  • (12) Our purpose is to enlighten the central position of competence in cognitive structures and coping systems of the patients.
  • (13) in 1991, French philosophy enjoyed a golden age akin to classical Greece or Enlightenment Germany.
  • (14) I haven't felt this enlightened since extraordinary rendition.
  • (15) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
  • (16) Daud Naji, an Enlighten Movement leader, said on Sunday that they had been told only that there was a “heightened risk” of attack and had subsequently cancelled nine of 10 planned routes.
  • (17) Beverage price increases were regarded to be the least effective approach by nurses and clerical employees, while physicians felt that the press was the least likely source of enlightenment.
  • (18) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
  • (19) But then the dislocations and traumas caused by industralisation and urbanisation accelerated the growth of ideologies of race and blood in even enlightened western Europe.
  • (20) Had English rulers taken a more enlightened view of gender issues they might not have got into such a mess.

Illusion


Definition:

  • (n.) An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
  • (n.) Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
  • (n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
  • (n.) A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By using various colors, it is possible to tattoo a nipple-areola complex onto the breast that will have an illusion of projection.
  • (2) Apnea monitoring did not prevent, and in fact perpetrated the illusion of SIDS in this infant.
  • (3) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
  • (4) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
  • (5) They must be kept secret because publication would destroy the illusion of a royal neutrality no one in power thinks exists any more.
  • (6) They impose the illusion of order on a chaotic life; they cement our place within and commitment to a collective.
  • (7) The preliminary experiments described here suggest that tilt aftereffects and illusions induced by projected slides of tilted real-object scenes have angular functions similar to that induced by a line grating.
  • (8) These variants, which yielded a robust illusion, included dihedral angles in place of the arrowheads of the classical pattern.
  • (9) During vibration of the depressor muscles with the mandible in its rest position the subjects underestimated an opening movement, but fixation of the mandible caused no illusions of movement.
  • (10) Stimuli were circular beams of light projected on screens (Delboef type of illusion).
  • (11) The director John Hillcoat and I were under no illusions.
  • (12) When the shaft is shortened and reaches neither of the vertices of the two pairs of wings, a reversed Müller-Lyer illusion is observed: a shaft between inward-pointing wings appears to be longer than a shaft between the outward-pointing wings.
  • (13) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
  • (14) The subjects were asked to relate dreams, thoughts, or other mental illusions experienced during G-LOC episodes.
  • (15) While Yarmolenko stayed quiet, Stepanenko left no illusions as to his interpretation.
  • (16) The count of publications on geometric-optical illusions and the bibliography of extant books on the topic are brought up to date.
  • (17) The illusion is of watching a prima ballerina dancing only for you.
  • (18) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
  • (19) Four experiments were conducted to investigate the role of "large" squares on the occurrence of assimilation and contrast in the Baldwin illusion.
  • (20) It creates a dangerous illusion that simply by reducing sugar intake, one can eradicate obesity.