Illusion

Noun

 * 1)  Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
 * 2) * We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.
 * 3) * Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.
 * 4)  A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
 * 5) * Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.
 * 6)  A magician’s trick.
 * 7)  The fact of being an illusion (in any of the above senses).

Derived terms

 * illusionist
 * illusory
 * optical illusion
 * under the illusion that

Adjectives for Illusion
self-imposed; transparent; phantasmagorical; egregious; optical; innocent; grave; desired; ambrosial; childlike; brief; gorgeous; fantastic; strange; dramatic; auditory; kindred (pi) ; terrifying; momentary; sacred; brilliant; vague; exquisite; romantic; beloved; concrete; shattered; spectral; charming; dazzling; sweet; pleasing; multiplied (pi).

Verbs for Illusion
awaken from—; beguile with—; cherish—; complete—; create—; cultivate—; destroy —; dispel—; dispose of—; dissolve—; entertain—; extirpate—; harbor—; illustrate —; maintain—; mask—; prolong—; shat¬ter—; strip of—; suffer—; sweep away—; triumph over—; uncover—; wander in—; — blinds; —crumbles; —haunts; —lulls; — persists; —prevails; —robs; —stupefies.

Thesaurus
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

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Arabic: هلوسة,,  انخداع
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: irudipen, ameskeria,  itxaropen
 * Catalan: il·lusió
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, zinsbegoocheling
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , Sinnestäuschung
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 幻覚,
 * Korean: 환각 (幻覺)
 * Latvian: acu māns
 * Lithuanian:
 * Portuguese: ilusão
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: иллюзия, наваждение
 * Serbian: opsena
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: illusion, synvilla
 * Thai: ภาพลวงตา
 * Turkish: yanılsama


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian:


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: иллюзия
 * Serbian: opsena
 * Swedish: illusion, förvillelse


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, truuk,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ილუზიონი


 * Greek: κόπλο
 * Hebrew:
 * Russian: иллюзия
 * Swedish: illusion, trick


 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Georgian:


 * Russian: иллюзия
 * Swedish: illusion


 * : ilusión
 * : tálvon

Noun

 * 1) illusion

Etymology
From illusion:, from  illusio:.

Noun

 * 1) illusion

Related terms

 * illusoire
 * illusoirement

Noun

 * 1) an illusion

Related terms

 * illusorisk