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Nibbidā

Disenchantment: the turning away from conditioned things that arises when their nature is clearly seen.

Also: Nibbida, disenchantment

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

Nibbidā is disenchantment or revulsion, a sober weariness with the round of conditioned existence. The texts describe a sequence: seeing things as they are leads to disenchantment, disenchantment to dispassion, dispassion to release. In the Visuddhimagga it is one of the insight knowledges.