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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
Typical psychotic-like experiences include perceptual distortions and hallucinations, suspicious paranoid thinking, delusions and bizarre, unusual thoughts.
Too many of the people we call pundits looked at him and his ridiculous digital trading cards and saw the phantasmagorial grandiose delusions of someone with superpowers not to be taken seriously.
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.
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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