Causing disappointment by revealing something is less wonderful than believed; shattering illusions or false hopes.
Present participle of disenchant used as an adjective; emphasizes the ongoing or active process of stripping away magical thinking.
Meeting your childhood heroes can be 'disenchanting'—the reality of flesh-and-blood humans can't match the magical figures we imagined, and the word perfectly captures that collision between fantasy and reality.
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