disillusionment

[ dis-i-loo-zhuhn-muhnt ]

/ ˌdɪs ɪˈlu ʒən mənt /

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the loss or destruction of illusions or idealistic beliefs; the state of having lost such illusions or beliefs:Her bitterness and disillusionment were complete when he refused to investigate the corruption she reported because he was in business with some of the people involved.

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Origin of disillusionment

disillusion + -ment

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How to use disillusionment in a sentence

The hype cycle can help marketers push past looming disillusionment with identityIn considering where our industry currently sits with identity solutions, the Gartner Hype Cycle proves instructive.
Identity solution fatigue is setting in: How to keep moving|Eyeota|June 17, 2021|Digiday
Predictably, the industry has been existing within the peak of inflated expectations this past year, and thus, it’s now on the cusp of Gartner’s famed “trough of disillusionment.”
Identity solution fatigue is setting in: How to keep moving|Eyeota|June 17, 2021|Digiday
Many traced their disillusionment to how the pandemic exposed and magnified the broken parts of America’s health-care system.
Burned out by the pandemic, 3 in 10 health-care workers consider leaving the profession|William Wan|April 22, 2021|Washington Post
Part of the liberal disillusionment in the 1970s, he said, arose from the unfulfilled promises of the 1960s.
Is Walter Mondale-style liberalism back?|Steven M. Gillon|April 22, 2021|Washington Post

Faith in a brighter future kept me clocking into kitchens despite growing disillusionment.
The Toxicity of Restaurant Kitchens Is Exactly Why I Never Reported Abuses|Lindsey Danis|February 4, 2021|Eater
Whichever party attacks that problem can help shake us free of our disillusionment with democracy.
What Republicans Need Right Now Is a Good Internal Fight|James Poulos|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The people of Donetsk are clinging to normality, trying to enjoy the spring, but their anger, disillusionment and fear runs deep.
Putin Has Predicted Civil War in Ukraine. So Do Many of Its People|Anna Nemtsova|April 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yet Greece was both inspiration and disillusionment for the poet.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and Savvy|Michael Weiss|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even by American standards, it was a moment of extravagant uneasiness, disillusionment, and mania.
American Dreams, 1973: The Princess Bride by William Goldman|Nathaniel Rich|August 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Gavison is one of many Israeli liberals who drifted right in disillusionment after the second intifada.
Formulating an Alternative to the ‘Jewish State Law’|Raphael Magarik|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Disillusionment cut him to the quick, but had no power to obscure his rosy views of human nature.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
Well, you might get it if you tried hard enough, and then only find discontent and disillusionment.
The Whale and the Grasshopper|Seumas O'Brien
I carefully noted the street and the house, and went away, but not home—I was conscious of a sort of disillusionment.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems|Ivan Turgenev
There would be disillusionment ahead for her, and bitter awakening from long-wrapping dreams.
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek|George W. Ogden
They are the means by which the age records its feelings of disillusionment.
The Arena|Various

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