illusions

NOUN

false appearance; false belief

Synonyms

STRONGEST

confusion deception delusion fantasy hallucination image misconception myth pipe dream semblance

STRONG

apparition bubble chimera daydream error fallacy fancy ghost hocus-pocus invention make-believe mirage misapprehension mockery paramnesia phantasm rainbow trip

WEAK

déjà vu false impression figment of imagination fool's paradise head trip idolism ignus fatuus misbelief misimpression optical illusion seeming virtual reality

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fact reality truth

STRONG

being certainty correction right

WEAK

event

Example Sentences

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The album cover for Sweet Illusions - from which the first single, Bin Night, was released last year - features Peter at a bus stop in London, thinking about home.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

Director Ed Zwick explains why he goes there in ‘Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions.’

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024

One of Japan’s leading politicians, Okuma Shigenobu, wrote about how the West perceived the Japanese in Illusions of the White Race.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

New York has a commercial Museum of Illusions, a tourist attraction in the Meatpacking District whose optical mirages invite visitors to “Trick your eye and entertain your mind!”

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

Lastly, a long banner announced: The Trivelino Troupe’s Circus & Imaginarium of Illusions has come to play.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton