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disillusionments

disillusionments is the plural of disillusionment.

Meaning of disillusionment

Noun

disillusionment (countable and uncountable, plural disillusionments)

  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.
    • But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything- every disillusionment, every disgust with life.1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, “3”, in The Brothers Karamazov, book V
  2. The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.
    • 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.1901, Woodrow Wilson, When a Man Comes to Himself, section I

Questions about disillusionments

What is disillusionments the plural of?
Disillusionments is the plural of disillusionment.

Words near disillusionments in the dictionary

  1. disillusionizer
  2. disillusionizers
  3. disillusionizes
  4. disillusionizing
  5. disillusionment
  6. disillusionments
  7. disillusions
  8. disillusive
  9. disillusory
  10. disiloxane
  11. disiloxanes

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