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disenchantment

/ˌdɪsɪnˈtʃɑːntmənt/

disenchantment noun: the act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted.

Noun

disenchantment (countable and uncountable, plural disenchantments)

  1. The act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted.
  2. Freeing from false belief or illusions.
    • Disenchantment with the religion led to a sharp fall in church attendance.
  3. The devaluation of religion or mysticism apparent in modern society.
    • Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution.2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN

disenchantment meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

disenchantment in Tamil

ஏமாற்றம்

disenchantment in Urdu

disenchantment
ازالہ سحر azālah e seher

disenchantment in Malayalam

disappointment, disillusionment, dissatisfaction
മതിഭ്രമവിമുക്തി, യാഥാർത്ഥ്യദർശനം, അപ്രീതി, അതൃപ്തി, ഇച്ഛാഭംഗം, ദോഷദൃഷ്ടി

Forms of disenchantment

pluraldisenchantments

Origin of disenchantment

From dis- + enchantment. In the social sciences sense a calque of German Entzauberung, as used by sociologist Max Weber.

Questions about disenchantment

What does disenchantment mean?
Disenchantment means the act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted.
What is disenchantment in Tamil?
Disenchantment in Tamil is ஏமாற்றம். See Disenchantment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disenchantment?
Disenchantment is a noun.
How do you pronounce disenchantment?
Disenchantment is pronounced /ˌdɪsɪnˈtʃɑːntmənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of disenchantment?
The plural of disenchantment is disenchantments.

Words near disenchantment in the dictionary

  1. disenchantedness
  2. disenchanter
  3. disenchanters
  4. disenchanting
  5. disenchantingly
  6. disenchantment
  7. disenchantments
  8. disenchantress
  9. disenchantresses
  10. disenchants
  11. disencharm

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disenchantment (page history and authors); disenchantment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ازالہ سحر (Urdu) (page history and authors); disenchantment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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