Disappointment vs Rebuff - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
(countable) A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
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A sudden resistance or refusal.
Repercussion, or beating back.
* Milton
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
To buff again.
Disappointment is a related term of rebuff.
As nouns the difference between disappointment and rebuff
is that disappointment is (uncountable) the emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met while rebuff is a sudden resistance or refusal.As a verb rebuff is
to refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.disappointment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."'' — ''Today , News Group Newspapers Ltd, 1992
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- As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.'' — ''Cabinet , Hennessy, Peter, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990
rebuff
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
- the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud