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Disenchant vs Disillusion - What's the difference?

disenchant | disillusion |

As verbs the difference between disenchant and disillusion

is that disenchant is to free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion while disillusion is to free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.

As a noun disillusion is

(countable) the act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief.

disenchant

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.
  • To disappoint.
  • To remove a spell or magic enchantment from.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

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    disillusion

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.
  • Derived terms

    * disillusioned * disillusionment

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (countable) The act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief.
  • (uncountable) The state of having been or process of becoming freed of false belief.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being or becoming free of false belief) disillusionment