edification
/ˌɛdɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun] formal
The moral or intellectual instruction or improvement of someone: a video was filmed for the edification of clients...
- Cemeteries are no longer sites of public moral edification and aesthetic education.
- We do not customarily look to opera for moral edification.
- Stories of wonder shifted from instruments of edification to entertainment.
Synonyms
education, instruction, tuition, teaching, schooling, pedagogy, andragogy, tutoring, coaching, training, tutelage, guidance;
enlightenment, cultivation, development, information, inculcation, indoctrination, improvement, bettering, uplifting, elevation
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin aedificatio(n-), from aedificare 'build' (see edify).