English Dictionary

disillusionment

IPA（発音記号）

/dɪsɪˈluʒənmənt/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

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.

日本語の意味

幻滅 / 失望 / 自分が期待・信じていたものが実際にはそうでないと気付いたときに感じる、心の落胆や虚脱感

After years of idealizing the movement, she was left with only disillusionment, a heavy, philosophical sorrow that eroded her certainty.

運動を何年も理想化した後、彼女に残ったのは、確信を蝕む重く深い幻滅感と実存的な不安だけだった。

意味（1）

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.

But till I am thirty, I know that my youth will triumph over everything- every disillusionment, every disgust with life.

意味（2）

The act of freeing from an illusion; the state of being freed therefrom.

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.

disillusionments （ plural ）