disillusionary

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English

Adjective

disillusionary (comparative more disillusionary, superlative most disillusionary)

  1. Causing disillusion.
    • 1957, Industrial Society, volumes 39-40, page 31:
      With newspapers, radio and television doing so much of our thinking for us, politics or, more particularly, gossip about politicians, is now on everyone's tongue. And what a disillusionary experience it is! These would-be immortals are revealed as frail and vain beings at every utterance.
    • 1970, Herbert Aptheker, The urgency of Marxist-Christian dialogue, page 41:
      This is related to Moltmann's thought that "The starting point of this socialist revolution lies in the disillusionary experience of the French and capitalist revolutions.