Delusion

Noun

 * 1) A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
 * 2) The state of being deluded or misled.
 * 3) That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

Adjectives for Delusion
nightmare; cherished; fixed; superstitious; generous; grandiose; ignorant; insane; partial; monstrous; mental; shattered; anthropocentric; hollow; false; phantasmic; treasured; crazy; tenderhearted; unconquerable; pleasant; systematized; salutary; popular; miserable; long-detached; equal; mere; uncomfortable; plausible; stage; optical; pernicious; fond; empty; financial; neat; mocking; tragic; psychotic; somnolent.

Verbs for Delusion
cast out—; cure of—; destroy—; develop—; dismiss—; dissipate—; foster—; give up to—; guard against—; labor under—; share—; slip into—; suffer—; —exists; — misleads; —pursues.

Synonyms for Delusion
error, hallucination, illusion, fallacy, fantasy, deception, misconception, chimera, phantom.

Antonyms for Delusion
reality, fact, certainty, actuality, truth, substance, materiality

Derived terms

 * delusion of grandeur

Thesaurus
aberrancy, aberration, acting, affectation, agnosia, airy nothing, apparition, appearance, artifice, attitudinizing, autism, bamboozlement, befooling, block, blocking, bluff, bluffing, bubble, calculated deception, casuistry, cheat, cheating, chicane, chicanery, chimera, circumvention, color, coloring, conning, counterfeit, daydream, deceit, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defectiveness, defrauding, delirium, deluded belief, delusion of persecution, delusiveness, dereism, deviancy, disguise, disorientation, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, distortion, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, dupery, eidolon, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, equivocation, errancy, erroneousness, error, facade, face, fake, fakery, faking, fallaciousness, fallacy, false air, false belief, false front, false show, falseness, falsity, fancy, fantasy, fault, faultiness, feigning, feint, figment, flaw, flawedness, flight of ideas, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, four-flushing, fraud, front, ghost, gilt, gloss, hallucination, hallucinosis, hamartia, heresy, heterodoxy, hoodwinking, humbug, humbuggery, ignis fatuus, illusion, imposture, kidding, masquerade, mental block, mental confusion, meretriciousness, mirage, misapplication, misbelief, misconception, misconstruction, misdoing, misfeasance, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistake, nihilism, nihilistic delusion, ostentation, outward show, outwitting, overreaching, paralogia, peccancy, perversion, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream, playacting, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, psychological block, putting on, representation, ruse, seeming, self-contradiction, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, semblance, shade, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, sin, sinfulness, snow job, song and dance, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spoofery, spoofing, spuriousness, stratagem, subterfuge, swindling, trick, trickery, trickiness, tricking, trip, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, vapor, varnish, victimization, vision, willful misconception, window dressing, wishful thinking, wrong, wrong impression, wrongness

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, илюзия
 * Czech:
 * Danish: indbildning
 * French :


 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: הטעיה
 * Italian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:


 * Arabic:
 * Danish: vrangforestilling
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Greek: πλάνη (plane)


 * : αυταπάτη (aftapate), παραίσθηση (paresthese) , ψευδαίσθηση (psevdesthese)
 * : złuda
 * : vanföreställning c

Anagrams

 * unsoiled