About The Word Illusion
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Illusion
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What's The Definition Of Illusion?
[n] an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
[n] the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas [n] something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy" [n] an erroneous mental representation Synonyms | Synonyms for Illusion: conjuration | conjuring trick | deception | delusion | fancy | fantasy | head game | legerdemain | magic | magic trick | phantasy | semblance | trick Related Terms | Find terms related to Illusion: aberrancy | aberration | air | airy nothing | apparition | appearance | bamboozlement | bedevilment | befooling | bewitchery | bewitchment | bluffing | brainchild | bubble | calculated deception | captivation | chimera | circumvention | conning | deceiving | deception | deceptiveness | defectiveness | defrauding | delirium | delusion | delusiveness | deviancy | distortion | dream | dupery | eidolon | enchantment | enmeshment | ensnarement | entanglement | entrancement | entrapment | errancy | erroneousness | error | ether | fallaciousness | fallacy | falseness | falsity | fancy | fantasque | fantasy | fascination | fault | faultiness | fiction | figment | flaw | flawedness | flimflam | flimflammery | fond illusion | fooling | hallucination | hamartia | heresy | heterodoxy | hoodwinking | idle fancy | ignis fatuus | imagery | imagination | imagining | insubstantial image | invention | kidding | maggot | make-believe | maya | mirage | misapplication | misapprehension | misconception | misconstruction | misdoing | misfeasance | misinterpretation | misjudgment | mist | mistake | myth | obsession | outwitting | overreaching | peccancy | perversion | phantasm | phantasmagoria | phantom | pipe | pipe dream | possession | putting on | rainbow | romance | seeming | self-contradiction | self-deception | semblance | shadow | sick fancy | sin | sinfulness | smoke | snow job | song and dance | spirit | spoofery | spoofing | subterfuge | swindling | thick-coming fancies | thin air | trickiness | tricking | trip | unorthodoxy | untrueness | untruth | untruthfulness | vapor | victimization | vision | whim | whimsy | wildest dreams | willful misconception | wishful thinking | witchery | wrong | wrongness See Also | apparition | appearance | bubble | card trick | deceit | dissembling | dissimulation | ignis fatuus | irradiation | misconception | performance | phantom | phantom limb | prestidigitation | shadow | sleight of hand | will-o'-the-wisp | wishful thinking Illusion In Webster's Dictionary \Il*lu"sion\, n. [F. illusion, L. illusio, fr.
illudere, illusum, to illude. See {Illude}.]
1. An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision;
a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery;
hallucination.
To cheat the eye with blear illusions. --Milton.
2. Hence: Anything agreeably fascinating and charning;
enchantment; witchery; glamour.
Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise! --Pope.
3. (Physiol.) 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.
Note: Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and
hallucination, regarding the former as originating with
some external object, and the latter as having no
objective occasion whatever.
4. A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils,
scarfs, dresses, etc.
Syn: Delusion; mockery; deception; chimera; fallacy. See
{Delusion}. {Illusion}, {Delusion}. Illusion refers
particularly to errors of the sense; delusion to false
hopes or deceptions of the mind. An optical deception is
an illusion; a false opinion is a delusion. --E.
Edwards.
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