as in disillusionment
Related Words
Relevance
Dissimilar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of disenchantment
In November, Johnson, fed up with McNamara’s disenchantment and his pleadings for a policy shift toward negotiations, announced that the defense secretary would depart the administration to lead the World Bank—in effect, firing him.
—
Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
So if there is a refusal to use the word taxidermy and the word disenchantment is chosen instead, it is done out of stubbornness.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
In it, Kingsnorth chronicles his disenchantment with the activism that had once been his life’s work—the very kind of advocacy that had driven many of my students, that had driven me, into that classroom in the first place.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2025
The cover is a coy reference to the R&B star’s disenchantment with traditional romantic relationships and prioritization of financial and material gain in her dealings with men, an accusation levied upon Anna Nicole Smith regarding her own love life.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 6 Nov. 2025
But the path to responsibility leads through disenchantment.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disenchantment
Noun
-
In former democracies, that trend is rooted in popular disillusionment with traditional elites.—
-
Economist and author Alice Lassman, a (British) Gen Zer herself, has written for Business Insider about her personal disillusionment after her stint at Columbia led to a verbal, later rescinded offer to be an economist at USAID.—
Noun
-
But Taylor, who studies how the internet interacts with culture, says the rise of vagueposting coincides with a public discontent with just how grasping social media has become.—
-
The protests quickly spread, with people joining marches across the country to denounce not only the economic woes, but to air wider discontent with the country's hardline regime.—
Cite this Entry
“Disenchantment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenchantment. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
Love words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share