To disenchant someone is to disillusion them, to cause them to lose their faith in something. Disenchantment can happen when you learn new information that contradicts what you believe.
The young girl was disenchanted with the world after she learned about the war.
The philosopher was disenchanted with the idea of democracy after he saw how it was working in practice.
noun
freeing from false belief or illusions
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The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing.
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The incantation of art only intensifies the central disenchantment.
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Political corruption and disenchantment.
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These crystallised political disenchantment.
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They cause disenchantment with the world.
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For eber this intellectualization of the world causes disenchantment.
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Thus there can be no such thing as the disenchantment of Christianity.
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Yes, the FA process can be a disenchantment.
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Disenchantment with government is not inevitably reflected at the ballot box.
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At a societal level, this disenchantment may lead to rioting.