Synonyms:
delusion, illusion, head_game
Meaning: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
Synonyms:
delusion, hallucination
Meaning: a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"
Synonyms:
delusion, psychotic_belief
Meaning: (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary
Usage examples
Do not think that it was a delusion, Holmes.
Backward they always gaze toward dark ages: then, indeed, were delusion and faith something different.
The sense of solitude under this aggressive and tremendous delusion was agony, hourly death to my soul.
Sir, this is a monstrous and hideous extravagance, a delusion, but, after all, no more than a trick of the imagination; the reason, the judgment, is untouched.
If Keene was labouring under some strange delusion, some disorder of mind, how could I estimate its nature or extent, without time and study, perhaps without expert advice?
Again he had been the victim of delusion and had wasted heroic emotions on a stuffed dummy that served merely as an inanimate instrument in a course of anti-fat calisthenics.
During Rousseau's later years he was the victim of the delusion of persecution; and although he was protected by a succession of good friends, he came to distrust and quarrel with each in turn.
In fact, I went more than once; but I remember especially my first visit, which had a livelier sentimental interest than the others because I was then under the agreeable delusion that the Prince himself had lived there.
Here, now, it is the simple conformity to law in general, without assuming any particular law applicable to certain actions, that serves the will as its principle and must so serve it, if duty is not to be a vain delusion and a chimerical notion.
They had thought inducing the agent to rob his own patch of a few melons, while under the delusion that they belonged to his enemy Brayley, a bit of harmless fun; but here was the vindictive fellow actually destroying his own property by the wholesale.