Crossword clues for disillusionment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disillusionment \Dis`il*lu"sion*ment\, n. The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, from disillusion + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. 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. 2 The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.
WordNet
n. freeing from false belief or illusions [syn: disenchantment, disillusion]
Usage examples of "disillusionment".
After the dispute had dragged The Disillusionment of Davie Fulton 165 on for two months, the strikers raided the camps of nonunion loggers hired by the companies.
XI Returning the next afternoon from the first ride for several days, Winton passed the station fly rolling away from the drive-gate with the light-hearted disillusionment peculiar to quite empty vehicles.
Three years of uncomplicated enjoyment had crumbled to disillusionment.
Kronstadt uprising undoubtedly reflected the growing mood of disillusionment with War Communism among the masses, first and foremost of the more backward and peasant elements, but increasingly among workers whose morale had been undermined by years of war, civil war and famine.
She belonged to that, alas, numerous type which, with large expectations unrealised, cannot accept disillusionment with the gentle laughter it deserves.
Her prime weaknesses, aside from the habit of prosaic disillusionment, are a tendency toward erroneous geography and history and a fatal predilection for bestrewing her novels with insipid little poems, attributed to one or another of the characters.
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Sadness at this, and disillusionment, had brought Richard here, to the Canal Creperie, and to Steve Cousins, his familiar and his fan.
His crusading and seafaring past, with all its enthusiasms and disillusionments, was referred to from the beginning.
Regretfully, he admitted that the gross disillusionments of life had left their mark.
It was an incurable weakness of his to like them, and no amount of disillusionments could teach him sense.
There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the mediaeval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
I want you to observe, Miss Taggart, that those who cry the loudest about their disillusionment, about the failure of virtue, the futility of reason, the impotence of logic—are those who have achieved the full, exact, logical result of the ideas they preached, so mercilessly logical that they dare not identify it.