Synonyms:
illusion, semblance
Meaning: an erroneous mental representation
Synonyms:
illusion, fantasy, phantasy, fancy
Meaning: something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
Synonyms:
delusion, illusion, head_game
Meaning: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
Usage examples
Cherished the amiable illusion
An illusion has laid hold upon me.
But this illusion lasted a very short time.
I was the victim of a very curious illusion to-day.
The Hebrew illusion said, Christ was coming; the Christian illusion says, Christ has come.
Its snowy summit, by an optical illusion not unfrequent in mountains, seemed close to us, and yet how many weary hours it took to reach it!
There was something so ludicrous in the catastrophe of this learned Theban that I burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, which broke the whole illusion.
He will then say that all experience is really his own and that some inexplicable illusion has momentarily raised opaque partitions in his omniscient mind.
"My sister and I are skillful in interpreting dreams, and even entertain great fear of them; but of yours it may be said, I hope, every dream is an illusion.
The painter started, stared, rubbed his eyes, thought it was another spectral illusion, and was on the point of yielding to his terror, when Karl rose, and approached him with a smile.