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will-o'-the-wisp
noun as in ignis fatuus
Weak matches
- 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
noun as in wish fulfillment
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Example Sentences
And suddenly Guncotton produced his will-o-the-wisp trick, which completed the illusion.
No charted coast, no lights but love-light, an that most always turns out to be a will-o-the-wisp, that piles ye up on the rocks.
My dungeon is lighted by the will-o-the-wisp alone; no breath of spring cheers the murky solitude in which I dwell.
For what a Will-o-the-wisp are you ready to sacrifice my regard, and all the privileges of your position as my granddaughter!
She slipped into a serviceable and grubby pair of overalls, and spent the afternoon in giving Will-o-the-Wisp a thorough grooming.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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