Word Meanings - DELUSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled. 3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone.

Additional info about word: DELUSION

1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled. 3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone. Prior. Syn. -- Delusion, Illusion. These words both imply some deception practiced upon the mind. Delusion is deception from want of knowledge; illusion is deception from morbid imagination. An illusion is a false show, a mere cheat on the fancy or senses. It is, in other words, some idea or image presented to the bodily or mental vision which does not exist in reality. A delusion is a false judgment, usually affecting the real concerns of life. Or, in other words, it is an erroneous view of something which exists indeed, but has by no means the qualities or attributes ascribed to it. Thus we speak of the illusions of fancy, the illusions of hope, illusive prospects, illusive appearances, etc. In like manner, we speak of the delusions of stockjobbing, the delusions of honorable men, delusive appearances in trade, of being deluded by a seeming excellence. "A fanatic, either religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions; while the term illusion is applied solely to the visions of an uncontrolled imagination, the chimerical ideas of one blinded by hope, passion, or credulity, or lastly, to spectral and other ocular deceptions, to which the word delusion is never applied." Whately.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DELUSION)

• Blunder
• Error
• mistake
• misunderstanding
• fault
• oversight
• inaccuracy
• delusion
• slip
• Deceit
• Cheat
• imposition
• trick
• fraud
• deception
• double dealing
• circumvention
• guile
• bewilderment
• treachery
• sham
• insidiousness
• indirection
• duplicity
• cunning
• artifice
• Fallacy
• Sophistry
• error
• blunder
• misconception
• bugbear
• fiction
• chimera
• Illusion
• Dream
• mockery
• hallucination
• phantasm
• vision
• myth
• false show
• fallacy
• Sham
• Phantom
• ghost
• illusion
• shadow
• pretence
• counterfeit
• unreality

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DELUSION)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Expose
• unmask
• detect

Related words: (words related to DELUSION)

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  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• ILLUSIONABLE
  Liable to illusion.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• GHOSTLESS
  Without life or spirit.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.