Crossword-Solution: DISILLUSIONMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Disillusionment | n. | The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “DISILLUSIONMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Idealism opposite | 1 answer |
| Learning that there's no Santa Claus | 1 answer |
| Result of shattered ideals | 1 answer |
| Unenchanted state | 1 answer |
| the state of being disillusioned | 1 answer |
| suicidal tendency | 4 answers |
| Dumps | 22 answers |
| fool's paradise | 44 answers |
| Disappointment | 62 answers |
| despair | 71 answers |
| Gloom | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DISILLUSIONMENT (5)
Such a fearful disillusionment, such a blasting of life-long hopes and aspirations, such an uprooting of age-old tradition might have excused a vastly greater demonstration on the part of the Thark.
However, his disillusionment with society had deepened, and he was ready to consider even more radical solutions than before.
Yet the pang of the disillusionment was none the less keen and sickening, and the pain was as that of a corporeal wound.
But which of us is of mental fibre to stand the test of a glimpse into futurity? Let us only hope that, even with certain disillusionment ahead, the girls would have acted precisely as they did.
The strange thing is that each one who has gone through that bitter disillusionment adds to it in his turn, unconsciously, by the power within him which is stronger than himself.
Quotes with DISILLUSIONMENT (3)
…questioning the existence of God may begin because of one’s sense of disappointment rather than because of a line of reasoning. Disappointment can bring disillusionment, and disillusionment can get quite a grip on us. It may be the case that, next to the grip of disillusionment, whatever reasons we can think of to believe that God exists or that God is good will appear weak. So sometimes the reason we do not believe or the reason we stop believing is not the intellectual cha…
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been answered long, long ago, claimed Moss; man's very essence lay in the fact that he had elected to command. But to Stenham that seemed a shallow reply. To him wisdom consisted in the conscious and joyous obedience to natural laws, yet when he had said that to Moss, Moss had laughed pityingly. 'My dear man, wisdom is a primitive concept,' he had told him. 'What …
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–2000).