| Main Entry: | dissent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disagreement, disapproval |
Synonyms: |
bone of contention, bone to pick, bone, clinker, conflict, contention, denial, difference, disaccord, discord, dissension, dissidence, disunity, far cry, flak, hassle, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonagreement, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nope, objection, opposition, poles apart, protest, refusal, resistance, schism, sour note, spat, split, strife, unorthodoxy, variance |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
Antonyms: |
agreement, approval, authorization, concurrence, endorsement, ratification, sanction |
| Main Entry: | dissidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference of opinion |
Synonyms: |
bad vibes, contention, disaccord, disagreement, discordance, disharmony, dispeace, dispute, dissension, dissent, feud, heresy, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, rupture, schism, sour note, strife, unorthodoxy |
Antonyms: |
agreement, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | error |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake; wrong |
Synonyms: |
X, absurdity, bad job, blunder, boner, boo-boo, delinquency, delusion, deviation, erratum, failure, fall, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, glitch, goof, howler, inaccuracy, lapse, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, misconception, miscue, misdeed, misjudgment, mismanagement, miss, misstep, misunderstanding, offense, omission, oversight, screamer, screw-up, sin, slight, slip, slipup, solecism, stumble, transgression, trespass, untruth, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
accuracy, certainty, correction, right, truth, validity |
| Main Entry: | heresy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unorthodox opinion, especially in religious matters |
Synonyms: |
agnosticism, apostasy, atheism, blasphemy, defection, disbelief, dissent, dissidence, divergence, error, fallacy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, impiety, infidelity, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, paganism, revisionism, schism, sectarianism, secularism, sin |
Antonyms: |
orthodoxy |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | ignis fatuus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion |
Synonyms: |
apparition, bubble*, chimera, confusion, daydream, deception, deja vu, delusion, 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, phantasma, pipe dream, rainbow*, seeming, semblance, trip*, virtual reality, will-o'-the-wisp |
| Main Entry: | error |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
faulty, aberrant, all in the wrong, apocryphal, astray, at cross, controvertible, deceitful, delusive, devoid of truth, erroneous, exploded, fallacious, false, groundless, heretical, ideal, illogical, illusive, illusory, in error, in the wrong box, inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite, inexact, mistaken, mock, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, out, out in one's reckoning, perverted, refuted, spurious, tripping, unauthenticated, under an error, unexact, ungrounded, unreal, unsound, unsubstantial, unsustainable, untrue, untrustworthy, wide of the mark
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