disillusionment

1. 1.

   freeing from false belief or illusions

   Synonymsdisenchantmentdisillusion

   Broaderedification

Other forms of disillusionment

plural

disillusionments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disillusionment

What does disillusionment mean?

disillusionment means "freeing from false belief or illusions".

How many syllables are in disillusionment?

disillusionment has 5 syllables: dis-il-lu-sion-ment. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsɪˈluʒənmənt/.

What is another word for disillusionment?

Close synonyms include disenchantment, disillusion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disillusionment a common word?

disillusionment is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.