Ernüchterung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- disillusionment noun A feeling of sadness and disappointment that comes from discovering that something is not as good or as true as you believed.
Senses
Ernüchterung is used for these senses in English:
- disillusionment 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.
- disillusionment The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.
disillusionment — full definition
- noun A feeling of sadness and disappointment that comes from discovering that something is not as good or as true as you believed.
- noun The process of losing a false belief, or the state of having lost it.
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