Disillusionment

Quick meaning: Disillusionment is a noun meaning The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.

Meaning

The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.

More Meanings

1. A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.

Example Sentences

But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything- every disillusionment, every disgust with life.

I catch on your face the old sad smile / Of our ancient disillusionment, / When the ardent crowd tries to beguile / Your world-old soul to impassionment.

It is a very wholesome and regenerating change which a man undergoes when he "comes to himself." […] It is a process of disillusionment. The scales have fallen away.

They were self-conscious of their disillusionment and demoralization, and their spokesmen—the artists and journalists among them—publicized their cynicism so successfully that it came to be regarded as the mood of a whole decade.

Word Forms

• disillusionments

Synonyms for disillusionment

Depending on context, synonyms include disillusion, disenchantment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disenchantment, disappointment, despair, dismay, regret, disaffection.

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