| Main Entry: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consistent inability to remember |
Synonyms: |
absentmindedness, abstraction, amnesia, blackout, blank, blockout, carelessness, dreaminess, fugue, heedlessness, hypomnesia, inattention, lapse of memory, laxness, lethe, limbo, loss of memory, negligence, nirvana, oblivion, obliviousness, paramnesia, repression, short memory, suppression |
Antonyms: |
attentiveness, heed, mindfulness, remembering |
| 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: | false-memory syndrome |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | memory that may be false |
Synonyms: |
FMS, false memory, misremembrance, paramnesia, retrospective falsification |
| 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: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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