disenchantmentn.
The action of disenchanting or fact of being disenchanted.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > freeing or deliverance from enchantment
disenchanting1620
disenchantment1620
disincantation1652
unwitching1655
unspelling1897
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > freeing or deliverance from enchantment > fact of being disenchanted
disenchantment1620
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > disillusionment
disillusion1851
disillusioning1855
disillusionment1856
disillusionizing1864
disenchantment1876
dishallucination1881
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote IV. xxii. (R.) All concluded in the promise..of the disenchantment.
1675 (title) O Brazile, or the inchanted Island; being a Relation of a late Discovery of the Dis-inchantment of an Island in the North of Ireland.
1796 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. II 9 All the conjurers..might assist at the disinchantment.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxvi. 158 This general disenchantment with the world..only intensified her sense of forlornness.
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