disillusion
Speech parts
1. disillusion - Noun
2. disillusion - Verb
Meaning
The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom.
To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.
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Examples
At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.
He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
My first poem was a bolt from the blue ... it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy.
He had wished to convince himself that Comarre was evil. Now he knew that it was not. There would always be, even in Utopia, some for whom the world had nothing to offer but sorrow and disillusion.
He who lives on illusions, dies of disillusion.
Absence is the mother of disillusion.