Disenchantment
noun
Feeling of disappointment or loss of excitement.
After the initial excitement, he felt a sense of disenchantment with his new job.
Often appears as...
- sense of disenchantment
- disenchantment with something
noun
The act or process of removing magic or charm from someone or something.
The disenchantment of the forest was done by a powerful wizard.
Often appears as...
- disenchantment of something
- undergo disenchantment
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Literary
noun
Feeling of disappointment or loss of excitement.
After the initial excitement, he felt a sense of disenchantment with his new job.
Often appears as...
- sense of disenchantment
- disenchantment with something
noun
The act or process of removing magic or charm from someone or something.
The disenchantment of the forest was done by a powerful wizard.
Often appears as...
- disenchantment of something
- undergo disenchantment
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3After Excitement
Used when initial joy fades, and reality doesn't meet expectations.
Her disenchantment with the course grew as she realized it wouldn't help her career.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Shift
Marks a change from positive to negative feelings about something once positive.
Voters' disenchantment with the government grew due to unfulfilled promises.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Feeling
Reflects a personal response, may vary greatly between different people.
Despite the team's victory, his disenchantment stemmed from being benched.
Pro Tip 1/3After Excitement
Used when initial joy fades, and reality doesn't meet expectations.
Her disenchantment with the course grew as she realized it wouldn't help her career.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Shift
Marks a change from positive to negative feelings about something once positive.
Voters' disenchantment with the government grew due to unfulfilled promises.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Feeling
Reflects a personal response, may vary greatly between different people.
Despite the team's victory, his disenchantment stemmed from being benched.
Pro Tip 1/3After Excitement
Used when initial joy fades, and reality doesn't meet expectations.
Her disenchantment with the course grew as she realized it wouldn't help her career.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Shift
Marks a change from positive to negative feelings about something once positive.
Voters' disenchantment with the government grew due to unfulfilled promises.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Feeling
Reflects a personal response, may vary greatly between different people.
Despite the team's victory, his disenchantment stemmed from being benched.
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A simple way to break a...
when we're stressed out or tired, even though we know it's not going to be helpful. We just can't help ourselves. When the prefrontal cortex goes offline, we fall back into our old habits, which is why this disenchantment is so important. Seeing what we get from our habits
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Let’s put the romance...
at risk of engineering the romance out of our lives romance which perhaps is the ultimate differential in a world of maximizers and optimizers we've been at a point of such disenchantment before 200 years ago
Video examples
A simple way to break a...
when we're stressed out or tired, even though we know it's not going to be helpful. We just can't help ourselves. When the prefrontal cortex goes offline, we fall back into our old habits, which is why this disenchantment is so important. Seeing what we get from our habits
Video examples
Let’s put the romance...
at risk of engineering the romance out of our lives romance which perhaps is the ultimate differential in a world of maximizers and optimizers we've been at a point of such disenchantment before 200 years ago
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Quote examples
Andrew O'Hagan
Scottish Novelist
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.
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Dana Loesch
American Activist
The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being 'spend cash mon-nay' rather than execute the Constitution.
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Enrique Pena Nieto
Mexican Statesman
Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.
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Barkha Dutt
Indian Journalist
The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi's version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred.
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William Throsby Bridges
Australian Soldier
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
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Jacob Weisberg
American Journalist
Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.
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Max Weber
German Economist
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
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Zygmunt Bauman
Polish Sociologist
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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Andrew O'Hagan
Scottish Novelist
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.
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Dana Loesch
American Activist
The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being 'spend cash mon-nay' rather than execute the Constitution.
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Enrique Pena Nieto
Mexican Statesman
Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.
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Barkha Dutt
Indian Journalist
The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi's version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred.
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William Throsby Bridges
Australian Soldier
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
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Jacob Weisberg
American Journalist
Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.
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Max Weber
German Economist
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
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Zygmunt Bauman
Polish Sociologist
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Jean-Paul Sartre
French Philosopher
Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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