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delusion

the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination"

(psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary

Synonyms:

• aberrancy,
• aberration,
• acting,
• affectation,
• agnosia,
• airy nothing,
• apparition,
• appearance,
• artifice,
• attitudinizing,
• autism,
• bamboozlement,
• befooling,
• block,
• blocking,
• bluff,
• bluffing,
• bubble,
• calculated deception,
• casuistry,
• cheat,
• cheating,
• chicane,
• chicanery,
• chimera,
• circumvention,
• color,
• coloring,
• conning,
• counterfeit,
• daydream,
• deceit,
• deceiving,
• deception,
• deceptiveness,
• defectiveness,
• defrauding,
• delirium,
• deluded belief,
• delusion of persecution,
• delusiveness,
• dereism,
• deviancy,
• disguise,
• disorientation,
• dissemblance,
• dissembling,
• dissimulation,
• distortion,
• dream,
• dream vision,
• dreamland,
• dreamworld,
• dupery,
• eidolon,
• enmeshment,
• ensnarement,
• entanglement,
• entrapment,
• equivocation,
• errancy,
• erroneousness,
• error,
• facade,
• face,
• fake,
• fakery,
• faking,
• fallaciousness,
• fallacy,
• false air,
• false belief,
• false front,
• false show,
• falseness,
• falsity,
• fancy,
• fantasy,
• fault,
• faultiness,
• feigning,
• feint,
• figment,
• flaw,
• flawedness,
• flight of ideas,
• flimflam,
• flimflammery,
• fond illusion,
• fooling,
• four-flushing,
• fraud,
• front,
• ghost,
• gilt,
• gloss,
• hallucination,
• hallucinosis,
• hamartia,
• heresy,
• heterodoxy,
• hoodwinking,
• humbug,
• humbuggery,
• ignis fatuus,
• illusion,
• imposture,
• kidding,
• masquerade,
• mental block,
• mental confusion,
• meretriciousness,
• mirage,
• misapplication,
• misbelief,
• misconception,
• misconstruction,
• misdoing,
• misfeasance,
• misinterpretation,
• misjudgment,
• mistake,
• nihilism,
• nihilistic delusion,
• ostentation,
• outward show,
• outwitting,
• overreaching,
• paralogia,
• peccancy,
• perversion,
• phantasm,
• phantom,
• pipe dream,
• playacting,
• pose,
• posing,
• posture,
• pretense,
• pretension,
• pretext,
• psychological block,
• putting on,
• representation,
• ruse,
• seeming,
• self-contradiction,
• self-deceit,
• self-deception,
• self-delusion,
• semblance,
• shade,
• sham,
• show,
• simulacrum,
• simulation,
• sin,
• sinfulness,
• snow job,
• song and dance,
• sophism,
• sophistry,
• speciousness,
• spoofery,
• spoofing,
• spuriousness,
• stratagem,
• subterfuge,
• swindling,
• trick,
• trickery,
• trickiness,
• tricking,
• trip,
• unorthodoxy,
• untrueness,
• untruth,
• untruthfulness,
• vapor,
• varnish,
• victimization,
• vision,
• willful misconception,
• window dressing,
• wishful thinking,
• wrong,
• wrong impression,
• wrongness