What's the difference between disillusionize and illusion?
Disillusionize
Definition:
(v. t.) To disenchant; to free from illusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent editorials and reviews express disillusionment and sharp criticism with the contribution of animal experimental studies to stroke prevention and treatment.
(2) Nationally, the disillusionment began with the poll tax, the decline of manufacturing in Scotland , Wales, the Midlands and the north of England during the Thatcher years, the failure of our interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan and the financial crisis in 2008 which loaded on taxpayers the huge costs of bailing out the banks.
(3) Generalizations for candidate selections to high stressed occupations could be made as well as projections of foundations for possible progressive disillusionment (burn out).
(4) Public disillusionment with mainstream parties following the expenses scandal could prove a boon, she claims.
(5) After the great disillusionment – as the Chinese-US alliance of the mid-70s was termed – many of them privatised, and thousands joined the Greens, Jürgen Trittin becoming a staunch pro-Nato member of Gerhard Schröder's cabinet.
(6) Unless there is a clear articulation of the proposition to be put before the Australian people, and a timeframe in which to achieve it, we run the risk of the worst possible outcome – a campaign that runs out of steam due to disinterest and disillusionment.
(7) AEDs may experience the life cycle of many new ideas: initial enthusiasm and widespread adoption, followed by disillusionment and rejection, and finally a mature, proper perspective.
(8) He was not sure why the number of volunteers is down, whether there was just not the same sense of excitement as in 2008 or if it was the result of disillusionment.
(9) But they made their move only minutes after Brown had given one of his most effective performances at prime minister's questions and hours after Mandelson had used a speech on growth to mark the end of his temporary disillusionment with his premiership.
(10) "The whole world is in cataclysmic disillusionment," he says, pouring his fizzy water.
(11) But the result, if women who report domestic abuse are failed by the public services they depend on, will be bitter and justified disillusionment.
(12) Müller's shirt was all England will carry away from the whole mishandled adventure, apart from a deep sense of disillusionment which may linger for some time.
(13) We’ve heard as much from you , the voters, who report disillusionment, frustration, and fear .
(14) Opinion on benzodiazepines has moved from optimism after their entry onto the market to disillusionment over their potential for dependence.
(15) "But that won't necessarily translate to permanent disillusionment.
(16) In a shifting world where political disillusionment is the norm, Brand offers a hopeful handbook of new ways of thinking.
(17) The 17-year-old travelled to Syria without her family’s knowledge with two school friends, and details have now emerged of her disillusionment with life in Raqqa, and her desire to return to Britain.
(18) Europe has turned inward as it has struggled with a sovereign debt crisis, xenophobia towards its Muslim communities and disillusionment with Brussels.
(19) The 38% rate of abstention in the second round of the election was seen as a direct message of disillusionment with the country's ruling class.
(20) The referendum decision will come at the culmination of a long period of disillusionment with politicians.
Illusion
Definition:
(n.) An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
(n.) Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning; enchantment; witchery; glamour.
(n.) A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.
(n.) A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By using various colors, it is possible to tattoo a nipple-areola complex onto the breast that will have an illusion of projection.
(2) Apnea monitoring did not prevent, and in fact perpetrated the illusion of SIDS in this infant.
(3) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(4) Cocaine produces simple hallucinations, PCP can produce complex hallucinations analogous to a paranoid psychosis, while LSD produces a combination of hallucinations, pseudohallucinations and illusions.
(5) They must be kept secret because publication would destroy the illusion of a royal neutrality no one in power thinks exists any more.
(6) They impose the illusion of order on a chaotic life; they cement our place within and commitment to a collective.
(7) The preliminary experiments described here suggest that tilt aftereffects and illusions induced by projected slides of tilted real-object scenes have angular functions similar to that induced by a line grating.
(8) These variants, which yielded a robust illusion, included dihedral angles in place of the arrowheads of the classical pattern.
(9) During vibration of the depressor muscles with the mandible in its rest position the subjects underestimated an opening movement, but fixation of the mandible caused no illusions of movement.
(10) Stimuli were circular beams of light projected on screens (Delboef type of illusion).
(11) The director John Hillcoat and I were under no illusions.
(12) When the shaft is shortened and reaches neither of the vertices of the two pairs of wings, a reversed Müller-Lyer illusion is observed: a shaft between inward-pointing wings appears to be longer than a shaft between the outward-pointing wings.
(13) An illusion is something done one way that looks the other, like if you put a mirror in front of a pencil so the pencil looks like it's somewhere else.
(14) The subjects were asked to relate dreams, thoughts, or other mental illusions experienced during G-LOC episodes.
(15) While Yarmolenko stayed quiet, Stepanenko left no illusions as to his interpretation.
(16) The count of publications on geometric-optical illusions and the bibliography of extant books on the topic are brought up to date.
(17) The illusion is of watching a prima ballerina dancing only for you.
(18) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(19) Four experiments were conducted to investigate the role of "large" squares on the occurrence of assimilation and contrast in the Baldwin illusion.
(20) It creates a dangerous illusion that simply by reducing sugar intake, one can eradicate obesity.