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Definitions for Delusion
[1] an act or instance of deluding.
[2] the state of being deluded.
[3] a false belief or opinion: delusions of grandeur.
[4] Psychiatry . a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact: a paranoid delusion.
[5] a mistaken or misleading opinion, idea, belief, etc he has delusions of grandeur
[6] psychiatry a belief held in the face of evidence to the contrary, that is resistant to all reason See also illusion, hallucination
[7] the act of deluding or state of being deluded
Words related to Delusion
fantasy, hallucination, deception, illusion, fancy, casuistry, mirage, trip, phantom, trickery, speciousness, oversight, misapprehension, apparition, figment, phantasm, ghost, chicanery, daydream, lapse
Words nearby Delusion
deltoidal, delts, delubrum, delude, deluge, delusion, delusion of grandeur, delusion of negation, delusion of persecution, delusional, delusive
Origin of Delusion
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin dēlūsiōn- (stem of dēlūsiō ), equivalent to dēlūs(us ) (past participle of dēlūdere; see delude) + -iōn- -ion
Words that may be confused with Delusion
allusion, delusion, elusion, hallucination, illusion, (see, synonym, study, at, illusion)
Other words from Delusion
de·lu·sion·al , de·lu·sion·ar·y , adjective
pre·de·lu·sion , noun
de•lu′ sion•al adj.
Synonyms for Delusion
deception, fantasy, hallucination, illusion, pipe dream, apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deceptiveness, dream, error, fallacy, fancy, figment, ghost, lapse, mirage, misapprehension, mistake, oversight, phantasm, phantom, self-deception, shade, speciousness, spuriousness, trickery, trip, vision, eidolon, false impression, fool's paradise, head trip, ignis fatuus, optical illusion