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apparition - 13 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | apparition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | chimera, delusion, hallucination, haunt, illusion, phantasm, phantom, revenant, specter, spirit, spook, bogeyman, bump in the night, visitant |
| Antonyms: | animate, being |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fantasy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imagination, dream |
| Synonyms: | Atlantis, Utopia, air castle, apparition, appearance, bubble*, chimera, conceiving, creativity, daydream, delusion, envisioning, externalizing, fabrication, fairyland, fancy, fancying, fantasia, figment*, flight, flight of imagination, fool's paradise, hallucination, head trip, illusion, imaginativeness, imagining, invention, mind trip, mirage, nightmare, objectifying, originality, rainbow*, reverie, trip, vagary, vision |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ghost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of the dead |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, devil, haunt, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vision, visitor, wraith, banshee, daemon, eidolon, ethereal being, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, vampire, 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, phantom, trip*, vision, wraith, phantasmagoria |
| 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 |
| Antonyms: | certainty, event, fact, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phantom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost; figment of the imagination |
| Synonyms: | apparition, chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, haunt, illusion, mirage, nightmare, phantasm, revenant, shade, shadow, specter, spirit, spook, vision, wraith, eidolon, ignis fatuus |
| Antonyms: | reality |
| Main Entry: | poltergeist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, doppelganger, phantasm, phantom, revenant, specter, spirit, spook, vision, visitor, banshee, haunter, kelpie |
| Main Entry: | specter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, demon, doppelganger, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, presence, shadow, spirit, spook, vision |
| Main Entry: | optical illusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick on the eyes |
| Synonyms: | apparition, hallucination, illusion, mirage, phantasm, specter, vision, fata morgana, phantasmagoria, trick of eyesight, trick of light, trick of the eyesight, visual fallacy |
| Main Entry: | spirit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, sprite, supernatural being, vision, wraith, eidolon, umbra |
| Antonyms: | being, reality |
| Main Entry: | presence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, manifestation, shade, specter, spirit, supernatural being, wraith |
| Antonyms: | reality |
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, haunt, phantasm, phantom, revenant, shadow, specter, spirit, wraith, bogey, manes, umbra |
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