disappointment

Ferdinand Hodler's Study on the "Disappointed" (1891)

A disappointment describes the feeling that a hope has been destroyed or an unexpected grief caused one.

The underlying verb to disappoint was formed in the 19th century as a successful replacement word for the foreign words "detrompieren" (détromper) and "desabusieren" (désabuser), which were borrowed from the French language .

At first it had the positive meaning of “to tear out of a deception”, “to teach you better”, a disillusionment .

Following the negative meaning of “deceive”, the negative meaning developed as “not meeting an expectation”.

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Individual evidence

↑ after Mackensen - Large German Dictionary , 1977
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détromper means in today's French
- to teach someone else (or: better)
- to clear up / free sb. of his / her error
désabuser means in today's French
- open one's eyes to sb
- take away the illusions from sb. sober so
↑ Paragraph after Duden "Etymologie" - dictionary of origin of the German language . 2nd Edition. Dudenverlag, 1989. As well as: Kluge Etymological Dictionary of the German Language . 24th edition. 2002. Each Lemma disappoint

[1] ter Mackensen - Large German Dictionary , 1977

[2] étromper means in today's French

to teach someone else (or: better)

to clear up / free sb. of his / her error

désabuser means in today's French

open one's eyes to sb

take away the illusions from sb. sober so

[3] to teach someone else (or: better)

[4] to clear up / free sb. of his / her error

[5] 's eyes to sb

[6] take away the illusions from sb. sober so

[3] Paragraph after Duden "Etymologie" - dictionary of origin of the German language . 2nd Edition. Dudenverlag, 1989. As well as: Kluge Etymological Dictionary of the German Language . 24th edition. 2002. Each Lemma disappoint