Definition of "disenchantment" [dis•en•chant•ment]

• The act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted (noun)
• Freeing from false belief or illusions (noun)

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• "The disenchantment is rooted in national economic policies that were framed decades ago."
• "We are not talking of me, however -- but because of this, which in me you call disenchantment, I am able to understand mamma's wish to leave society, all the more because, if I were in her position, all homage, show, luxury, amusements would for me be as impossible as they are for her."
• "But his mood, that current of fretful optimism alternating with a cavernous disenchantment, is more or less unchanged: “I don’t know if this makes me a bad person or whatever, but it’s hard for me to get interested in other people’s vacations.”"