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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion |
| Synonyms: | apparition, dream, eidolon, fancy, fantasy, image, mirage, nightmare, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, vapor, vision |
| Notes: | fantasy is imagination unrestricted by reality; phantasm is a ghostly appearing figure or something existing in perception only |
| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy thought of when awake |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air, conceiving, dream, fancy, fancying, figment of imagination, fond hope, fool's paradise, head trip, imagination, imagining, in a zone, mind trip, musing, phantasm, phantasy, pie in the sky, pipe dream, reverie, stargazing, trip*, vision, wish, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconception, misbelief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, ignis fatuus, illusion, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, optical illusion, oversight, phantasm, phantom, pipe dream, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision |
| Notes: | allusion is an 'indirect mention,' illusion is 'false impression,' and delusion is 'deception' which is much stronger than illusion hallucination is from disturbed sensory perceptions; delusion is from disturbed thinking an illusion is an image or conception of something actual or real that presents itself to the mind in an abnormal or distorted manner; a delusion is a false belief about oneself or other people that persists despite its being at variance with the facts |
| Antonyms: | actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking, dream |
| Synonyms: | big eyes, chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, imaginativeness, inclination, invention, itch, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky, pipe dream, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, romancing, sweet tooth, vision, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | certainty, fact, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | ghost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of the dead |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, banshee, daemon, demon, devil, eidolon, ethereal being, haunt, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vampire, vision, visitor, wraith, zombie |
| Antonyms: | being, entity |
| Main Entry: | hallucination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dream, delusion |
| Synonyms: | aberration, apparition, fantasy, figment of the imagination, head trip, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantasmagoria, phantom, trip*, vision, wraith |
| Notes: | hallucination is from disturbed sensory perceptions; delusion is from disturbed thinking |
| Antonyms: | experience, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false appearance; false belief |
| Synonyms: | apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, delusion, déjè vu, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment of imagination, fool's paradise, ghost, hallucination, head trip, hocus-pocus, idolism, ignus fatuus, image, invention, make-believe, mirage, misapprehension, misbelief, misconception, misimpression, mockery, myth, optical illusion, paramnesia, phantasm, pipe dream, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality |
| Notes: | allusion is an 'indirect mention,' illusion is 'false impression,' and delusion is 'deception' which is much stronger than illusion an illusion is an image or conception of something actual or real that presents itself to the mind in an abnormal or distorted manner; a delusion is a false belief about oneself or other people that persists despite its being at variance with the facts |
| Antonyms: | certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | image |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concept |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, conceit, conception, construct, figure, idea, impression, intellection, mental picture, notion, perception, phantasm, thought, trope, vision |
| Antonyms: | concrete, entity |
| Main Entry: | mirage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imaginary vision |
| Synonyms: | delusion, fantasy, hallucination, ignis fatuus, illusion, optical illusion, phantasm |
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