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illusions - 20 thesaurus results
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
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: appearance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: outward show; pretense
Synonyms: aura, beard*, blind, countenance, dream, facade, front, guise, idea, illusion, image, impression, mirage, phenomenon, reflection, screen, seeming, semblance, sound, specter, vision
Antonyms: reality
Main Entry: chimera
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dream, fantasy
Synonyms: bogy, bubble, delusion, fabrication, fancy, fata morgana, figment, fool's paradise, hallucination, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, monster, monstrosity, pipe dream*, rainbow*, snare, specter, virtual reality
Antonyms: reality, truth
Main Entry: deception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: trick
Synonyms: artifice, bilk, bluff, catch, cheat, chicane, con, con game*, confidence game, cover-up, crock, decoy, device, dodge, fallacy, fast one, fast shuffle, feint, fib, fraud, gimmick, hoax, hogwash*, hustle, illusion, imposture, jive*, lie, malarkey*, mare's-nest, pretext, ride*, ruse, scam, sham, shift, shuck, snare, snow job*, stall, sting, story, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, trick, whitewash*, wile, wrinkle*
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
Antonyms: actuality, certainty, fact, reality, surety, truth
Main Entry: disguise
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: covering, makeup for deception
Synonyms: beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dress, facade, face, false front*, front*, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pseudonym, red herring*, screen, semblance, smoke screen*, trickery, veil, veneer, dissimulation, faking, fig leaf, get-up, pretentiousness, put-on
Main Entry: fancy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: liking, dream
Synonyms: chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, inclination, invention, itch*, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky*, pipe dream*, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, sweet tooth*, vision, yearning, yen, big eyes, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, imaginativeness, romancing
Antonyms: certainty, fact, reality, truth
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
Main Entry: figment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: creation in one's mind
Synonyms: bubble*, castle in the air*, chimera, daydream, dream, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, improvisation, invention, lie, nightmare, production
Antonyms: reality
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
Main Entry: imagination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: power to create in one's mind
Synonyms: acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness
Antonyms: being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth
Main Entry: imposition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: deception
Synonyms: artifice, cheating, con, fraud, hoax, hocus-pocus*, hypocrisy, illusion, imposture, stratagem, trick, trickery, craftiness, dissimulation
Antonyms: honesty, forthrightness
Main Entry: imposture
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fraud, trick
Synonyms: artifice, cheat, con, copy, counterfeit, deceit, deception, fabrication, fake, feint, fiddle, flimflam*, forgery, gambit, hoax, hocus-pocus*, illusion, imitation, impersonation, imposition, make-believe, maneuver, masquerade, phony, ploy, pretense, pretension, quackery, ruse, sell*, sham, sleight, spoof, stratagem, swindle, wile, put-on
Antonyms: honesty, reality, truth
Main Entry: insanity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental illness; foolishness
Synonyms: aberration, absurdity, alienation, delirium, delusion, dementia, derangement, distraction, dotage, folly, frenzy, hallucination, hysteria, illusion, inanity, lunacy, madness, mania, neurosis, phobia, preposterousness, unbalance, craziness, irrationality, irresponsibility, mental disorder, psychopathy, psychosis, senselessness, unreasonableness, witlessness
Antonyms: balance, sanity, soundness, wellness
Main Entry: lure
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bait
Synonyms: ambush, appeal, attraction, bribe, call, camouflage, come-on*, con game*, decoy, delusion, draw, enticement, fake, gimmick, hook, illusion, incentive, inducement, invitation, pull, seduction, sitting duck*, snare, temptation, tout, trap, trick, allurement, carrot*, inveiglement, magnet, mousetrap, seducement, siren song, sweetener
Antonyms: deterrent, warning
Main Entry: magic
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: supernatural power; appearance
Synonyms: alchemy, astrology, augury, black art, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, power, prediction, presage, prophecy, sleight of hand, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, trickery, voodoo, witchcraft, allurement, bewitchment, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, prestidigitation, rune, soothsaying, thaumaturgy, voodooism, wizardry
Main Entry: mirage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: imaginary vision
Synonyms: delusion, fantasy, hallucination, illusion, optical illusion, phantasm, ignis fatuus
Main Entry: mistake
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: error, misunderstanding
Synonyms: aberration, blooper*, blunder, bungle, confusion, delusion, erratum, false step, fault, faux pas, flub*, fluff*, gaffe, illusion, inaccuracy, inadvertence, lapse, misconception, misstatement, misstep, muddle, neglect, omission, oversight, slight, slip, slipup*, snafu*, solecism, trip*, typographical error, boo-boo, false move, misapplication, misapprehension, miscalculation, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misprint, overestimation, slip of tongue, underestimation
Antonyms: accuracy, calculation, certainty, correction, correctness, proof, success, truth, understanding
Main Entry: myth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fictitious story, often ancient
Synonyms: allegory, apologue, creation, delusion, fable, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, fiction, figment, folk tale, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, lore, parable, saga, superstition, tale, tradition, fairy story, folk ballad, mythos, tall story
Antonyms: fact, truth, non-fiction
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