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Word: disillusionment (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A feeling that arises from the discovery that something is not what it was anticipated to be, commonly held to be stronger than disappointment especially when a belief central to one?s identity is shown to be false.
  • The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.

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