Usually means: Loss of belief in ideals.
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  1. disillusionment: Merriam-Webster
  2. disillusionment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disillusionment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. disillusionment: Vocabulary.com
  5. Disillusionment, disillusionment: Wordnik
  6. disillusionment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. disillusionment: Wiktionary
  8. disillusionment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Disillusionment, disillusionment: Dictionary.com
  10. disillusionment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Disillusionment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. disillusionment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. disillusionment: Rhymezone
  14. Disillusionment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. disillusionment: FreeDictionary.org
  16. disillusionment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. disillusionment: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.

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disenchantment, self-delusion, epiphany, fantasy collapse, dissociation, chemicalization, illusionism, ontological shock, wishful thinking, sickness unto death, more...

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anger, sadness, disappointment, frustration, exasperation, more...

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bitter, widespread, general, great, profound, own, political, public, deep, complete, final

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Similar:
disenchantment, self-delusion, epiphany, fantasy collapse, dissociation, chemicalization, illusionism, ontological shock, wishful thinking, sickness unto death, more...

Types:
anger, sadness, disappointment, frustration, exasperation, more...

Phrases:
We Hear of Love, of Youth, and of Disillusionment, My Disillusionment in Russia, more...

Adjectives:
bitter, widespread, general, great, profound, own, political, public, deep, complete, final

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     sepia,     olive, more...



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