Aufklärung

Borrowed from German Aufklärung (“enlightenment; Enlightenment”).^[1]

• enPR: oufʹklârʀo͝ong, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊfklɛəɹʊŋ/,^[1]

the Aufklärung

1. (history) The Enlightenment.^[1]

Aufklärung (plural Aufklärungen)

1. (philosophy) An enlightenment.
2. (sometimes derogatory)^[1] Illuminism; the aims, manner, spirit, etc. of the Aufklärer.^[1]

• 1998, Bram Stoker's Dracula‎^[1], page 109:

  […] nor is it the embodiment of the various Aufklärungen by which his cultural torchbearers, like the sacrificed Winckelmann of The Renaissance, had hoped to illuminate pockets of lingering Gothic darkness.

From aufklären +‎ -ung.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊ̯fˌklɛːʁuŋ/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
• IPA^(key): /-ˌkleː-/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Auf‧klä‧rung

Aufklärung f (genitive Aufklärung, plural Aufklärungen)

1. the act of enlightening; an instance of enlightening
   • 1783, Immanuel Kant, Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?:

     Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbst verschuldeten Unmündigkeit.

     Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity.

2. (history) the Enlightenment
3. ellipsis of sexuelle Aufklärung or Sexualaufklärung (“sex education”)
4. clarification, as of a criminal case, mystery, etc.
5. elucidation
6. cipher services; intelligence
7. (military) reconnaissance unit

• “Aufklärung” in Duden online
• “Aufklärung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from German Aufklärung.

Aufklärung (uncountable)

1. Aufklärung

• “Aufklärung”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016