disillusionment

[ dis-i-loo-zhuhn-muhnt ]

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disillusionment¹

disillusion ( def ) + -ment ( def )

Example Sentences

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.

From 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.”

From Digiday

Many traced their disillusionment to how the pandemic exposed and magnified the broken parts of America’s health-care system.

From Washington Post

Part of the liberal disillusionment in the 1970s, he said, arose from the unfulfilled promises of the 1960s.

From Washington Post

Faith in a brighter future kept me clocking into kitchens despite growing disillusionment.

From Eater

Whichever party attacks that problem can help shake us free of our disillusionment with democracy.

From The Daily Beast

The people of Donetsk are clinging to normality, trying to enjoy the spring, but their anger, disillusionment and fear runs deep.

From The Daily Beast

Yet Greece was both inspiration and disillusionment for the poet.

From The Daily Beast

Even by American standards, it was a moment of extravagant uneasiness, disillusionment, and mania.

From The Daily Beast

Gavison is one of many Israeli liberals who drifted right in disillusionment after the second intifada.

From The Daily Beast

Disillusionment cut him to the quick, but had no power to obscure his rosy views of human nature.

From Project Gutenberg

Well, you might get it if you tried hard enough, and then only find discontent and disillusionment.

From Project Gutenberg

I carefully noted the street and the house, and went away, but not home—I was conscious of a sort of disillusionment.

From Project Gutenberg

There would be disillusionment ahead for her, and bitter awakening from long-wrapping dreams.

From Project Gutenberg

They are the means by which the age records its feelings of disillusionment.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• adversity
• blow
• chagrin
• defeat
• discontent
• disenchantment
• dissatisfaction
• failure
• frustration
• letdown
• regret
• setback