desilusión — meaning in English
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English meaning
- disappointment noun The feeling of sadness or letdown when something doesn't meet expectations.
- disillusion verb To make someone realize that a belief they held was false, often leaving them disappointed.
- disillusionment noun 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.
Senses
desilusión is used for these senses in English:
- disappointment (countable) An example or the act of disappointing: a circumstance in which a positive expectation is not achieved.
- disillusion (countable) The act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief or illusion.
- 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.
disappointment — full definition
- noun The feeling of sadness or letdown when something doesn't meet expectations.
- noun Something or someone that fails to meet expectations.
disillusion — full definition
- verb To make someone realize that a belief they held was false, often leaving them disappointed.
- noun The state of having lost a false belief, often leading to disappointment.