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delusions
noun as in mental illness
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- crack-up
- craziness
- depression
- derangement
- disturbed mind
- emotional disorder
- emotional instability
- loss of mind
- lunacy
- madness
- maladjustment
- mania
- mental disease
- mental sickness
- nervous breakdown
- nervous disorder
- neurosis
- neurotic disorder
- paranoia
- phobia
- psychopathy
- psychosis
- sick mind
- troubled mind
- unbalanced mind
- unsoundness of mind
Example Sentences
This sense of play is key, allowing “Great Gold Bird” to delve heavily into the realities of living with prolonged grief — its delusions, its isolating nature and its fantastical hopes — without feeling overbearing.
It was these delusions that saw Christopher rally members of the Federal Postal Court to attend Seax House, Chelmsford, in April 2023.
The sound design booms and rattles, the delusions are even more elaborate and the body horror is even bloodier and more disturbing.
At this point, at the end of his first year back from his second elbow reconstruction, Buehler doesn’t have any delusions of his capabilities.
But a conference in which conspiratorial delusions and outright falsehoods were treated as deserving the same respect as scientifically validated research, and in which the authors of serious virological and epidemiological studies, as well as respected public health authorities, were subjected to smears, was nothing like “constructive.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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