disillusionment

CEFRC1

/ˌdɪsɪˈluːʒənmənt/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
Loss of belief in something once thought good or true.
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noun
Extra detail
The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

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.

In context

But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything- every disillusionment, every disgust with life.
I catch on your face the old sad smile / Of our ancient disillusionment, / When the ardent crowd tries to beguile / Your world-old soul to impassionment.
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.

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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
I catch on your face the old sad smile / Of our ancient disillusionment, / When the ardent crowd tries to beguile / Your world-old soul to impassionment.
1917, John Cowper Powys, “Travellers”, in Mandragora
They were self-conscious of their disillusionment and demoralization, and their spokesmen—the artists and journalists among them—publicized their cynicism so successfully that it came to be regarded as the mood of a whole decade.
October 1940, Mortimer Adler\This Prewar Generation, “Harper's Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
'Oh, this fair is nothing but a chaos of noise and beggars,' I thought in disillusionment. 'I wonder if Western scientists, patiently enlarging the realms of knowledge for the practical good of mankind, are not more pleasing to God than these idlers who profess religion but concentrate on alms.'
1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “Chapter 36: Babaji's Interest in the West”, in Autobiography of a Yogi
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

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From dis- + illusion + -ment.