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unreality
collapse
the quality possessed by something that is unreal
the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact
related words >
Prospero
,
absence
,
airiness
,
appearance
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
bodilessness
,
delusiveness
,
deprivation
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
dreamery
,
emptiness
,
ethereality
,
fallaciousness
,
false appearance
,
false light
,
false show
,
falseness
,
flight of fancy
,
flimsiness
,
ideal
,
idealism
,
ideality
,
idealization
,
illusionism
,
illusionist
,
illusiveness
,
imaginative exercise
,
immateriality
,
impalpability
,
imponderability
,
impracticality
,
incorporeality
,
insubstantiality
,
intangibility
,
magic
,
magic act
,
magic show
,
magician
,
mistiness
,
negation
,
negativeness
,
negativity
,
nihility
,
nonbeing
,
nonentity
,
nonexistence
,
nonoccurrence
,
nonreality
,
nonsubsistence
,
not-being
,
nothingness
,
nullity
,
play of fancy
,
prestidigitation
,
quixotism
,
quixotry
,
romance
,
romanticism
,
seeming
,
semblance
,
show
,
simulacrum
,
sleight of hand
,
sorcerer
,
sorcery
,
specious appearance
,
subtility
,
subtlety
,
tenuity
,
tenuousness
,
unactuality
,
unconcreteness
,
unpracticalness
,
unrealism
,
unsolidity
,
unsubstantiality
,
unsubstantialness
,
utopianism
,
vacancy
,
vacuity
,
vacuum
,
vagueness
,
visionariness
,
void
,
wish fulfillment
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
enthusiast
collapse
an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity
related words >
Don Quixote
,
Quixote
,
activist
,
addict
,
adherent
,
admirer
,
aficionado
,
ball of fire
,
bear
,
beaver
,
big-time operator
,
bigot
,
booster
,
buff
,
bug
,
bum
,
bustler
,
busy bee
,
champion
,
collector
,
crank
,
daydreamer
,
demon
,
devotee
,
disciple
,
doer
,
dreamer
,
dreamer of dreams
,
eager beaver
,
energumen
,
escapist
,
extremist
,
faddist
,
fan
,
fanatic
,
fanatico
,
fiend
,
follower
,
freak
,
go-getter
,
great one for
,
groupie
,
habitue
,
head
,
hobbyist
,
hound
,
human dynamo
,
hustler
,
idealist
,
infatuate
,
live wire
,
lotus-eater
,
lover
,
lunatic fringe
,
man of action
,
man of deeds
,
maniac
,
militant
,
monomaniac
,
new broom
,
nut
,
operator
,
partisan
,
political activist
,
powerhouse
,
promoter
,
prophet
,
pursuer
,
rhapsodist
,
romancer
,
romantic
,
romanticist
,
seer
,
sucker for
,
supporter
,
take-charge guy
,
utopian
,
utopianist
,
utopianizer
,
visionary
,
votary
,
wheeler-dealer
,
winner
,
wishful thinker
,
zealot
mirage
collapse
something illusory and unattainable
an optical illusion in which atmospheric refraction by a layer of hot air distorts or inverts reflections of distant objects
related words >
apparition
,
appearance
,
bafflement
,
balk
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
betrayed hope
,
blasted expectation
,
blighted hope
,
blow
,
bluffing
,
buffet
,
calculated deception
,
circumvention
,
comedown
,
conning
,
cruel disappointment
,
dash
,
dashed hope
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defeat
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
disappointment
,
discomfiture
,
disillusionment
,
dissatisfaction
,
dupery
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
failure
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
fallen countenance
,
false image
,
falseness
,
fata morgana
,
fiasco
,
figure
,
fizzle
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
foiling
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
forlorn hope
,
form
,
frustration
,
hallucination
,
hoodwinking
,
hope deferred
,
illusion
,
image
,
kidding
,
letdown
,
looming
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
phantasm
,
phantom
,
phasm
,
phenomenon
,
presence
,
putting on
,
self-deception
,
setback
,
shape
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
sore disappointment
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
tantalization
,
tease
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
defense mechanism
collapse
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
related words >
alienation
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avoidance
,
avoidance mechanism
,
avoidance reaction
,
avoiding reaction
,
blame-shifting
,
block
,
blocking
,
circumvention
,
compensation
,
conversion
,
decompensation
,
defence
,
defense
,
defense in depth
,
defenses
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
deterrent capacity
,
displacement
,
dissociation
,
dodge
,
duck
,
ego defenses
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
emotional insulation
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fantasizing
,
fantasy
,
flight
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
getting around
,
guard
,
isolation
,
jink
,
mental block
,
negative taxis
,
negativism
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
overcompensation
,
prevention
,
projection
,
protection
,
psychological defenses
,
psychotaxis
,
rationalization
,
refraining
,
repression
,
resistance
,
self-defense
,
self-preservation
,
self-protection
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
sublimation
,
substitution
,
suppression
,
symbolization
,
the defensive
,
the runaround
,
ward
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
,
zigzag
rhapsodist
collapse
related words >
Don Quixote
,
Meistersinger
,
Parnassian
,
Quixote
,
addict
,
arch-poet
,
ballad maker
,
ballad singer
,
balladeer
,
balladmonger
,
bard
,
beat poet
,
bucoliast
,
bug
,
collector
,
daydreamer
,
demon
,
dreamer
,
dreamer of dreams
,
eager beaver
,
elegist
,
energumen
,
enthusiast
,
epic poet
,
escapist
,
faddist
,
fanatic
,
fiend
,
fili
,
folk singer
,
folk-rock singer
,
freak
,
gleeman
,
great one for
,
hobbyist
,
hound
,
idealist
,
idyllist
,
imagist
,
infatuate
,
jongleur
,
laureate
,
librettist
,
lotus-eater
,
major poet
,
maker
,
minnesinger
,
minor poet
,
minstrel
,
modernist
,
nut
,
occasional poet
,
odist
,
pastoral poet
,
pastoralist
,
poet
,
poet laureate
,
poetress
,
prophet
,
pursuer
,
rhapsode
,
romancer
,
romantic
,
romanticist
,
satirist
,
scop
,
seer
,
serenader
,
skald
,
sonneteer
,
street singer
,
strolling minstrel
,
sucker for
,
symbolist
,
troubadour
,
trouveur
,
trovatore
,
utopian
,
utopianist
,
utopianizer
,
vers libriste
,
vers-librist
,
visionary
,
wait
,
wandering minstrel
,
wishful thinker
,
zealot
pining
collapse
a feeling of deep longing
related words >
Heimweh
,
aching
,
agony
,
anguish
,
bowed-down
,
care
,
carking care
,
cast down
,
coming apart
,
cracking
,
crumbling
,
dashed
,
decadent
,
declining
,
degenerate
,
dejected
,
depressed
,
desiderium
,
despairing
,
despondent
,
desponding
,
deteriorating
,
discouraged
,
disheartened
,
disintegrating
,
dispirited
,
down
,
downcast
,
downhearted
,
draining
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dwindling
,
ebbing
,
effete
,
fading
,
failing
,
falling
,
feeling low
,
flagging
,
fragmenting
,
going to pieces
,
grief
,
hankering
,
heartfelt grief
,
heartgrief
,
heartless
,
homesick
,
homesickness
,
honing
,
hypochondriac
,
hypochondriacal
,
in low spirits
,
in the depths
,
in the doldrums
,
in the dumps
,
lamentation
,
languishing
,
languishment
,
longing
,
low
,
low-spirited
,
mal du pays
,
maladie du pays
,
marcescent
,
misery
,
nostalgia
,
nostalgic
,
nostomania
,
pessimistic
,
prostration
,
regressive
,
retrograde
,
retrogressive
,
shriveling
,
sinking
,
sliding
,
slipping
,
slumping
,
sorrow
,
sorrowing
,
spiritless
,
subdued
,
subsiding
,
suicidal
,
tabetic
,
waning
,
wasting
,
weary of life
,
wilting
,
wishful
,
wistful
,
withering
,
woe
,
woebegone
,
world-weary
,
worsening
,
yearnful
,
yearning
,
yen
visionary
collapse
a person with unusual powers of foresight
a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible
related words >
Barmecidal
,
Barmecide
,
Don Quixote
,
Quixote
,
Utopian
,
abstracted
,
addict
,
airy
,
apparent
,
apparitional
,
astral
,
autistic
,
bug
,
chimeric
,
collector
,
daydreamer
,
daydreaming
,
daydreamy
,
deceptive
,
delusional
,
delusionary
,
delusive
,
delusory
,
demon
,
dereistic
,
dreamer
,
dreamer of dreams
,
dreamlike
,
dreamy
,
eager beaver
,
energumen
,
enthusiast
,
erroneous
,
escapist
,
exalted
,
faddist
,
fallacious
,
false
,
fanatic
,
fanciful
,
fantast
,
fantastic
,
fiend
,
freak
,
grandiose
,
great one for
,
hobbyist
,
hound
,
idealist
,
idealistic
,
illusional
,
illusionary
,
illusive
,
illusory
,
imaginary
,
impractical
,
in the clouds
,
infatuate
,
introspective
,
lofty
,
lotus-eater
,
misleading
,
musing
,
noble
,
nut
,
ostensible
,
otherworldly
,
phantasmagoric
,
phantasmal
,
phantom
,
poetic
,
pretentious
,
prophet
,
pursuer
,
quixotic
,
radical
,
rhapsodist
,
romancer
,
romancing
,
romantic
,
romanticist
,
romanticized
,
seeming
,
seer
,
self-deceptive
,
self-deluding
,
specious
,
spectral
,
speculative
,
starry-eyed
,
storybook
,
sucker for
,
supposititious
,
transcendental
,
transmundane
,
unactual
,
unfounded
,
unpractical
,
unreal
,
unrealistic
,
unsubstantial
,
unworkable
,
unworldly
,
utopian
,
utopianist
,
utopianizer
,
wish-fulfilling
,
wishful thinker
,
zealot
hallucination
collapse
an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode; "he refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination"
illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder
related words >
aberration
,
agnosia
,
apparition
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
block
,
blocking
,
bluffing
,
brainchild
,
bubble
,
calculated deception
,
chimera
,
circumvention
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delirium
,
delirium tremens
,
delusion
,
delusion of persecution
,
delusiveness
,
disorientation
,
dream
,
dupery
,
eidolon
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fata morgana
,
fiction
,
figment
,
flight of ideas
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
ghost
,
hallucinosis
,
hoodwinking
,
idle fancy
,
illusion
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
kidding
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
mental block
,
mental confusion
,
mind-expansion
,
mirage
,
myth
,
nihilism
,
nihilistic delusion
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
paralogia
,
phantasm
,
phantom
,
psychological block
,
putting on
,
romance
,
self-deception
,
sick fancy
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
thick-coming fancies
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
trip
,
tripping
,
vapor
,
victimization
,
vision
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dreams
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
wraith
kidding
collapse
related words >
badinage
,
bamboozlement
,
banter
,
bantering
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
booing
,
calculated deception
,
catcalling
,
chaff
,
chaffing
,
circumvention
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
dupery
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
exchange
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
fleering
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
flippant
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
fooling around
,
give-and-take
,
good-natured banter
,
grinning
,
hallucination
,
harmless teasing
,
hazing
,
hissing
,
hoodwinking
,
hooting
,
illusion
,
jape
,
jeering
,
jest
,
jesting
,
jive
,
joke
,
joking
,
jollying
,
josh
,
joshing
,
kidding around
,
leering
,
mirage
,
mocking
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
panning
,
persiflage
,
phantasm
,
pleasantry
,
putting on
,
quizzical
,
ragging
,
railing
,
raillery
,
rallying
,
razzing
,
ribbing
,
ridicule
,
ridiculing
,
roasting
,
scoffing
,
self-deception
,
smart
,
smart-alecky
,
smart-ass
,
smirking
,
sneering
,
snickering
,
sniggering
,
snorting
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
sport
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
taunting
,
teasing
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
twit
,
twitting
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
song and dance
collapse
theatrical performance combining singing and dancing
related words >
Broadway musical
,
Singspiel
,
act
,
afterpiece
,
ballad opera
,
ballet
,
ballet divertissement
,
bamboozlement
,
befooling
,
bit
,
bluffing
,
calculated deception
,
chaser
,
chorus show
,
circumvention
,
comedy ballet
,
comic opera
,
conning
,
curtain
,
curtain call
,
curtain raiser
,
dance drama
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
divertimento
,
divertissement
,
dupery
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
epilogue
,
exode
,
exodus
,
expository scene
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
finale
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
grand opera
,
hallucination
,
hoke act
,
hoodwinking
,
illusion
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
introduction
,
kidding
,
light opera
,
lyric drama
,
minstrel
,
minstrel show
,
mirage
,
music drama
,
musical
,
musical comedy
,
musical stage
,
musical theater
,
number
,
opera
,
opera ballet
,
opera bouffe
,
opera buffa
,
operetta
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
phantasm
,
pitch
,
prologue
,
putting on
,
routine
,
scene
,
self-deception
,
shtick
,
sketch
,
skit
,
snow job
,
song-and-dance act
,
song-play
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
stand-up comedy act
,
striptease
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
turn
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
substitution
collapse
the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"
an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood"
related words >
agent
,
alienation
,
alternate
,
alternative
,
amends
,
analogy
,
atonement
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avoidance mechanism
,
backup
,
balancing
,
blame-shifting
,
change
,
changeling
,
changing
,
commutation
,
comparison
,
compensation
,
copy
,
counteraction
,
counterbalancing
,
counterfeit
,
decompensation
,
defense mechanism
,
deputy
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
displacement
,
dissociation
,
double
,
dummy
,
emotional insulation
,
equal
,
equivalent
,
ersatz
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
exchange
,
expiation
,
fake
,
fantasizing
,
fantasy
,
fill-in
,
flight
,
ghost
,
ghostwriter
,
imitation
,
indemnification
,
indemnity
,
interchange
,
interchanging
,
isolation
,
lex talionis
,
locum tenens
,
makeshift
,
metaphor
,
metonymy
,
negativism
,
next best thing
,
offsetting
,
overcompensation
,
personnel
,
phony
,
pinch hitter
,
projection
,
proxy
,
psychotaxis
,
rationalization
,
recompense
,
rectification
,
redress
,
relief
,
reparation
,
repayment
,
replacement
,
replacing
,
representative
,
reserves
,
resistance
,
restitution
,
retaliation
,
revenge
,
ringer
,
satisfaction
,
second string
,
secondary
,
sign
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
spares
,
stand-in
,
sub
,
sublimation
,
substituent
,
substitute
,
succedaneum
,
superseder
,
supplanter
,
supplanting
,
surrogate
,
swap
,
swapping
,
switch
,
switching
,
symbol
,
synecdoche
,
third string
,
token
,
understudy
,
utility player
,
vicar
,
vice-president
,
vice-regent
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
seer
collapse
an observer who perceives visually; "an incurable seer of movies"
related words >
Cassandra
,
Don Quixote
,
Druid
,
Quixote
,
TV-viewer
,
astrologer
,
augur
,
authority
,
beholder
,
bird-watcher
,
bystander
,
calamity howler
,
clairvoyant
,
crystal gazer
,
daydreamer
,
divinator
,
diviner
,
divineress
,
doctor
,
dreamer
,
dreamer of dreams
,
drugstore cowboy
,
elder
,
elder statesman
,
enthusiast
,
escapist
,
eyewitness
,
forecaster
,
foreknower
,
foreseer
,
foreshower
,
foreteller
,
fortune-teller
,
fortuneteller
,
gaper
,
gazer
,
gazer-on
,
geomancer
,
girl-watcher
,
goggler
,
great soul
,
guru
,
haruspex
,
idealist
,
illuminate
,
intellect
,
intellectual
,
kibitzer
,
looker
,
looker-on
,
lotus-eater
,
lover of wisdom
,
mahatma
,
man of intellect
,
man of wisdom
,
mandarin
,
master
,
mastermind
,
mentor
,
observer
,
ogler
,
onlooker
,
oracle
,
palmist
,
perceiver
,
percipient
,
philosopher
,
predictor
,
prefigurer
,
presager
,
prognosticator
,
prophesier
,
prophet
,
prophet of doom
,
prophetess
,
psychic
,
pythoness
,
rabbi
,
religious prophets
,
rhapsodist
,
rishi
,
romancer
,
romantic
,
romanticist
,
sage
,
sapient
,
savant
,
scholar
,
seeress
,
sibyl
,
sidewalk superintendent
,
soothsayer
,
spectator
,
spectatress
,
spectatrix
,
starets
,
televiewer
,
television-viewer
,
thinker
,
utopian
,
utopianist
,
utopianizer
,
vates
,
video-gazer
,
viewer
,
visionary
,
watcher
,
weather prophet
,
wise man
,
wise old man
,
wishful thinker
,
witness
romantic
collapse
a soulful or amorous idealist
belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry"
related words >
Don Quixote
,
Quixote
,
Utopian
,
abstract
,
absurd
,
adoring
,
affectionate
,
airy
,
allegoric
,
amorous
,
aroused
,
autistic
,
bathetic
,
beery
,
chimerical
,
cloying
,
conjugal
,
crackpot
,
created
,
daydreamer
,
demonstrative
,
dereistic
,
devoted
,
dreamer
,
dreamer of dreams
,
emotional
,
enthusiast
,
escapist
,
exotic
,
extravagant
,
fabulous
,
faithful
,
fancied
,
fanciful
,
fantasized
,
fantastic
,
fictional
,
fictitious
,
filial
,
fond
,
fresh
,
glamorous
,
gooey
,
gushing
,
husbandly
,
ideal
,
idealist
,
idealistic
,
idealized
,
idyllic
,
illusory
,
imaginary
,
imagined
,
impassioned
,
impractical
,
in the clouds
,
invented
,
languishing
,
legendary
,
libidinous
,
lotus-eater
,
lovelorn
,
lovesick
,
lovesome
,
loving
,
lustful
,
mad
,
made-up
,
maternal
,
maudlin
,
mawkish
,
melting
,
mushy
,
mythic
,
mythical
,
mythological
,
mythopoeic
,
mythopoetic
,
namby-pamby
,
nostalgic
,
nostomanic
,
otherworldly
,
oversentimental
,
oversentimentalized
,
parabolic
,
parental
,
passionate
,
paternal
,
picturesque
,
poetic
,
prophet
,
quixotic
,
rhapsodist
,
romancer
,
romancing
,
romanesque
,
romanticist
,
romanticized
,
saccharine
,
sappy
,
seer
,
sentimental
,
sentimentalist
,
sentimentalized
,
sloppy
,
slushy
,
soft
,
soppy
,
starry-eyed
,
sticky
,
storybook
,
strange
,
sugary
,
sweet
,
tear-jerking
,
teary
,
tender
,
transcendental
,
transmundane
,
unpractical
,
unrealistic
,
utopian
,
utopianist
,
utopianizer
,
uxorious
,
visionary
,
wifely
,
wild
,
wish-fulfilling
,
wishful thinker
dissociation
collapse
the act of removing from association
(chemistry) the temporary or reversible process in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or ions
a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently
related words >
alienation
,
alpha decay
,
alternating personality
,
atom-chipping
,
atom-smashing
,
atomic disintegration
,
atomic reaction
,
atomization
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avoidance mechanism
,
beta decay
,
blame-shifting
,
bombardment
,
breeding
,
bullet
,
catalysis
,
catalyst
,
chain reaction
,
cleavage
,
compensation
,
decay
,
decompensation
,
defense mechanism
,
depersonalization
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
dialysis
,
disassociation
,
disconnection
,
discreteness
,
disintegration series
,
disjunction
,
disjuncture
,
displacement
,
dissociation of personality
,
double personality
,
dual personality
,
emotional dissociation
,
emotional insulation
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
exchange reaction
,
fantasizing
,
fantasy
,
fission
,
fission reaction
,
flight
,
gamma decay
,
hydrolysis
,
hydrolyst
,
immateriality
,
impertinence
,
inapplicability
,
inappositeness
,
inconnection
,
inconsequence
,
independence
,
ionization
,
irrelation
,
irrelevance
,
isolation
,
mental dissociation
,
multiple personality
,
negativism
,
neutron reaction
,
nonreversible reaction
,
nuclear fission
,
nucleization
,
overcompensation
,
paranoia
,
paranoid personality
,
personality disorganization
,
photodisintegration
,
photolysis
,
projection
,
proton gun
,
proton reaction
,
psychotaxis
,
rationalization
,
resistance
,
reversible reaction
,
schizoid personality
,
schizoidism
,
schizophrenia
,
schizothymia
,
separateness
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
split personality
,
splitting
,
splitting the atom
,
stimulation
,
sublimation
,
substitution
,
target
,
thermolysis
,
thermonuclear reaction
,
unconnectedness
,
unrelatedness
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
negativism
collapse
related words >
abnegation
,
alienation
,
arrest
,
arrestation
,
arrestment
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avoidance mechanism
,
blame-shifting
,
blockage
,
blocking
,
challenge
,
check
,
clogging
,
closing up
,
closure
,
combative reaction
,
compensation
,
complaint
,
constriction
,
counteraction
,
cramp
,
cynicism
,
decompensation
,
defeatism
,
defense mechanism
,
defiance
,
delay
,
demur
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
detainment
,
detention
,
dismalness
,
displacement
,
dispute
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
dissociation
,
emotional insulation
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
fantasizing
,
fantasy
,
fixation
,
flight
,
foot-dragging
,
fractiousness
,
gloominess
,
gloomy outlook
,
hampering
,
hindering
,
hindrance
,
holdback
,
holdup
,
impediment
,
inhibition
,
interference
,
interruption
,
isolation
,
let
,
malism
,
nay
,
naysaying
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative attitude
,
negativeness
,
negativity
,
nihilism
,
nix
,
no
,
noncooperation
,
nuisance value
,
objection
,
obstinacy
,
obstruction
,
obstructionism
,
occlusion
,
opposition
,
overcompensation
,
passive resistance
,
pessimism
,
projection
,
protest
,
psychotaxis
,
rationalization
,
reaction
,
rebuff
,
recalcitrance
,
recalcitrancy
,
recalcitration
,
refractoriness
,
reluctance
,
remonstrance
,
renitence
,
renitency
,
repellence
,
repellency
,
repression
,
repulse
,
repulsion
,
resistance
,
restraint
,
restriction
,
retardation
,
retardment
,
retreatism
,
revolt
,
setback
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
squeeze
,
stand
,
stranglehold
,
stricture
,
sublimation
,
substitution
,
suppression
,
uncheerfulness
,
uncooperativeness
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
,
withstanding
phantasm
collapse
related words >
Masan
,
apparition
,
appearance
,
astral
,
astral spirit
,
bamboozlement
,
banshee
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
brainchild
,
bubble
,
calculated deception
,
chimera
,
circumvention
,
conning
,
control
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delirium
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
departed spirit
,
disembodied spirit
,
dupery
,
duppy
,
dybbuk
,
eidolon
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fiction
,
figment
,
figure
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
form
,
ghost
,
grateful dead
,
guide
,
hallucination
,
hant
,
haunt
,
hoodwinking
,
idle fancy
,
idolum
,
illusion
,
image
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
immateriality
,
incorporeal
,
incorporeal being
,
incorporeity
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
kidding
,
larva
,
lemures
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
manes
,
materialization
,
mirage
,
myth
,
oni
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
phantasma
,
phantasmagoria
,
phantom
,
poltergeist
,
presence
,
putting on
,
revenant
,
romance
,
self-deception
,
shade
,
shadow
,
shape
,
shrouded spirit
,
sick fancy
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
specter
,
spectral ghost
,
spirit
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
spook
,
sprite
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
theophany
,
thick-coming fancies
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
trip
,
unsubstantiality
,
vapor
,
victimization
,
vision
,
waking dream
,
walking dead man
,
wandering soul
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dream
,
wildest dreams
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
wraith
,
zombie
idealism
collapse
impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality
related words >
Berkeleianism
,
Geistesgeschichte
,
Hegelian idea
,
Hegelianism
,
Kantian idea
,
Kantianism
,
Neoplatonism
,
Platonic form
,
Platonic idea
,
Platonism
,
absolute idealism
,
animatism
,
animism
,
archetype
,
aspiration
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
bigheartedness
,
bigness
,
chivalrousness
,
chivalry
,
complex idea
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
dream
,
dreamery
,
elevation
,
errantry
,
eternal object
,
eternal universal
,
exaltation
,
exemplar
,
flight of fancy
,
form
,
formal cause
,
generosity
,
generousness
,
great heart
,
greatheartedness
,
greatness
,
greatness of heart
,
heroism
,
high goal
,
high-mindedness
,
highest category
,
history of ideas
,
hylozoism
,
ideal
,
ideality
,
idealization
,
ideals
,
ideate
,
ideatum
,
idee-force
,
imaginative exercise
,
immaterialism
,
impracticality
,
innate idea
,
knight-errantry
,
knightliness
,
largeheartedness
,
liberality
,
liberalness
,
loftiness
,
magnanimity
,
magnanimousness
,
materialism
,
metaphysical idealism
,
model
,
monistic idealism
,
nobility
,
noble-mindedness
,
nobleness
,
noosphere
,
noumenon
,
openhandedness
,
panpsychism
,
pattern
,
percept
,
personalism
,
play of fancy
,
princeliness
,
prototype
,
psychism
,
quixotism
,
quixotry
,
reaching high
,
regulative first principle
,
romance
,
romanticism
,
simple idea
,
solipsism
,
spiritualism
,
subjectivism
,
sublimity
,
subsistent form
,
the Absolute
,
the Absolute Idea
,
the Self-determined
,
the realized ideal
,
transcendent idea
,
transcendent nonempirical concept
,
transcendent universal
,
transcendental
,
universal
,
universal concept
,
universal essence
,
unpracticalness
,
unrealism
,
unreality
,
upward looking
,
utopianism
,
visionariness
,
wish fulfillment
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
illusion
collapse
something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
an erroneous mental representation
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
air
,
airy nothing
,
apparition
,
appearance
,
bamboozlement
,
bedevilment
,
befooling
,
bewitchery
,
bewitchment
,
bluffing
,
brainchild
,
bubble
,
calculated deception
,
captivation
,
chimera
,
circumvention
,
conning
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defectiveness
,
defrauding
,
delirium
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
deviancy
,
distortion
,
dream
,
dupery
,
eidolon
,
enchantment
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrancement
,
entrapment
,
errancy
,
erroneousness
,
error
,
ether
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
falsity
,
fancy
,
fantasque
,
fantasy
,
fascination
,
fault
,
faultiness
,
fiction
,
figment
,
flaw
,
flawedness
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
hallucination
,
hamartia
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
hoodwinking
,
idle fancy
,
ignis fatuus
,
imagery
,
imagination
,
imagining
,
insubstantial image
,
invention
,
kidding
,
maggot
,
make-believe
,
maya
,
mirage
,
misapplication
,
misapprehension
,
misconception
,
misconstruction
,
misdoing
,
misfeasance
,
misinterpretation
,
misjudgment
,
mist
,
mistake
,
myth
,
obsession
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
peccancy
,
perversion
,
phantasm
,
phantasmagoria
,
phantom
,
pipe
,
pipe dream
,
possession
,
putting on
,
rainbow
,
romance
,
seeming
,
self-contradiction
,
self-deception
,
semblance
,
shadow
,
sick fancy
,
sin
,
sinfulness
,
smoke
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spirit
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
thick-coming fancies
,
thin air
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
trip
,
unorthodoxy
,
untrueness
,
untruth
,
untruthfulness
,
vapor
,
victimization
,
vision
,
whim
,
whimsy
,
wildest dreams
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
witchery
,
wrong
,
wrongness
fooling
collapse
characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"
related words >
badinage
,
bamboozlement
,
banter
,
bantering
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
booing
,
buffoonery
,
calculated deception
,
catcalling
,
chaff
,
chaffing
,
circumvention
,
clownishness
,
conning
,
coquetry
,
dabbling
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
derision
,
derisive
,
derisory
,
dupery
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entanglement
,
entrapment
,
exchange
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
fiddling
,
fleering
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
flippancy
,
flippant
,
flirtation
,
fond illusion
,
foolery
,
fooling around
,
give-and-take
,
good-natured banter
,
grinning
,
hallucination
,
harlequinade
,
harmless teasing
,
hazing
,
high jinks
,
hissing
,
hoodwinking
,
hooting
,
horseplay
,
idling
,
illusion
,
jape
,
jeering
,
jerking off
,
jest
,
jesting
,
jive
,
joke
,
joking
,
jollying
,
josh
,
joshing
,
kidding
,
kidding around
,
leering
,
levity
,
loitering
,
messing around
,
mirage
,
mockery
,
mocking
,
monkeying
,
monkeying around
,
monkeyshines
,
outwitting
,
overreaching
,
panning
,
persiflage
,
phantasm
,
piddling
,
playing
,
playing around
,
pleasantry
,
pottering
,
puttering
,
putting on
,
quizzical
,
ragging
,
railing
,
raillery
,
rallying
,
razzing
,
ribbing
,
ridicule
,
ridiculing
,
roasting
,
roughhouse
,
rowdiness
,
scoffing
,
self-deception
,
shenanigans
,
skylarking
,
smart
,
smart-aleckiness
,
smart-alecky
,
smart-ass
,
smartness
,
smattering
,
smirking
,
sneering
,
snickering
,
sniggering
,
snorting
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
sport
,
subterfuge
,
swindling
,
taunting
,
teasing
,
tinkering
,
tomfoolery
,
toying
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
trifling
,
twit
,
twitting
,
victimization
,
vision
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
entanglement
collapse
related words >
abatis
,
absorption
,
adulterous affair
,
adultery
,
advanced work
,
affair
,
amour
,
association
,
balistraria
,
bamboozlement
,
bank
,
banquette
,
barbed-wire entanglement
,
barbican
,
barricade
,
barrier
,
bartizan
,
bastion
,
battlement
,
befooling
,
bluffing
,
breastwork
,
bulwark
,
calculated deception
,
casemate
,
cheval-de-frise
,
circumvallation
,
circumvention
,
cobweb
,
complexity
,
complexness
,
complication
,
conning
,
contact
,
contravallation
,
convolution
,
counterscarp
,
crabbedness
,
cuckoldry
,
curtain
,
deceiving
,
deception
,
deceptiveness
,
defrauding
,
delusion
,
delusiveness
,
demibastion
,
dike
,
drawbridge
,
dupery
,
earthwork
,
embarrassment
,
embroilment
,
enclosure
,
engagement
,
enmeshment
,
ensnarement
,
entrapment
,
escarp
,
escarpment
,
eternal triangle
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
falseness
,
fence
,
fieldwork
,
flimflam
,
flimflammery
,
flirtation
,
fond illusion
,
fooling
,
forbidden love
,
fortalice
,
fortification
,
glacis
,
hallucination
,
hanky-panky
,
hoodwinking
,
illicit love
,
illusion
,
implication
,
inclusion
,
infidelity
,
intricacy
,
intricateness
,
intrigue
,
involution
,
involvement
,
kidding
,
liaison
,
loophole
,
love affair
,
lunette
,
machicolation
,
mantelet
,
merlon
,
meshes
,
mirage
,
mound
,
outwitting
,
outwork
,
overreaching
,
palisade
,
parados
,
parapet
,
perplexity
,
phantasm
,
portcullis
,
postern gate
,
putting on
,
ramification
,
rampart
,
ravelin
,
redan
,
redoubt
,
relation
,
romance
,
romantic tie
,
sally port
,
scarp
,
sconce
,
self-deception
,
snow job
,
song and dance
,
spoofery
,
spoofing
,
stockade
,
subterfuge
,
subtlety
,
swindling
,
tanglement
,
technicality
,
tenaille
,
toils
,
triangle
,
trickiness
,
tricking
,
unfaithfulness
,
vallation
,
vallum
,
victimization
,
vision
,
web
,
willful misconception
,
wishful thinking
,
work
displacement
collapse
act of removing from office or employment
to move something from its natural environment
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
related words >
Doppler effect
,
agency
,
alienation
,
amotion
,
autism
,
autistic thinking
,
avatar
,
avoidance mechanism
,
banishment
,
blame-shifting
,
cashiering
,
catabolism
,
catalysis
,
change
,
commutation
,
compensation
,
consubstantiation
,
decompensation
,
deconsecration
,
defense mechanism
,
defrocking
,
delegation
,
delocalization
,
deportation
,
deposal
,
deposition
,
deprivation
,
deputation
,
deputyship
,
deracination
,
dereism
,
dereistic thinking
,
dethronement
,
disarrangement
,
disarticulation
,
disbarment
,
disbarring
,
discontinuity
,
discrownment
,
disenthronement
,
disjointing
,
dislocation
,
dismissal
,
dissociation
,
draft
,
emotional insulation
,
escape
,
escape into fantasy
,
escape mechanism
,
escapism
,
exchange
,
excommunication
,
expulsion
,
fantasizing
,
fantasy
,
firing
,
flight
,
forced resignation
,
forcible shift
,
heterotopia
,
impeachment
,
incoherence
,
isolation
,
kicking upstairs
,
liquidation
,
luxation
,
metabolism
,
metagenesis
,
metamorphism
,
metamorphosis
,
metastasis
,
metathesis
,
metempsychosis
,
movement
,
moving
,
mutant
,
mutated form
,
mutation
,
negativism
,
ostracism
,
ousting
,
overcompensation
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
pensioning off
,
permutation
,
power of attorney
,
projection
,
psychotaxis
,
purge
,
quid pro quo
,
rationalization
,
red shift
,
reincarnation
,
relegation
,
relocation
,
remotion
,
removal
,
removement
,
replacement
,
representation
,
resistance
,
retirement
,
ripping out
,
shift
,
sinkage
,
sociological adjustive reactions
,
sport
,
sublimation
,
submergence
,
submersion
,
subrogation
,
substitution
,
superannuation
,
supersedence
,
superseding
,
supersedure
,
supersession
,
supplantation
,
supplanting
,
supplantment
,
suspension
,
switch
,
tit for tat
,
transanimation
,
transfiguration
,
transfigurement
,
transformation
,
transformism
,
translation
,
translocation
,
transmigration
,
transmogrification
,
transmutation
,
transposition
,
transubstantiation
,
unchurching
,
unfrocking
,
unhinging
,
unjointing
,
unseating
,
uprooting
,
vicariousness
,
wish-fulfillment fantasy
,
wishful thinking
,
withdrawal
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