disillusionary

disillusionary

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.