disillusionment

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Definizione monolingua disillusionment



disillusionment


Noun

disillusionment (countable and uncountable; plural disillusionments)


  1. A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realisation that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having ones beliefs challenged.
    • 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, Book V, Chapter 3,
      But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything- every disillusionment, every disgust with life.
    • 1917, John Cowper Powys, Travellers, in Mandragora,
      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.
    • 1940 October, Mortimer Adler, This Prewar Generation, published in Harpers Magazine,
      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.
    • 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Chapter 36: Babajis Interest in the West,
      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.
    • 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower, First State of the Union Address,
      Our country has come through a painful period of trial and disillusionment since the victory of 1945. We anticipated a world of peace and cooperation. The calculated pressures of aggressive communism have forced us, instead, to live in a world of turmoil.
  2. The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.
    • 1901, Woodrow Wilson, When a Man Comes to Himself, I,
      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.


Definizione italiano>inglese disillusionment


disillusione
disinganno

Altri significati:


Traduzione 'veloce'



disillusione ,disinganno


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