disillusionary

comparative more disillusionary · superlative most disillusionary

1. Causing disillusion.

   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.

   1970, Herbert Aptheker, The urgency of Marxist-Christian dialogue, page 41

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   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.

   1957, Industrial Society, volumes 39-40, page 31