Thesaurus / illusion
FEEDBACKsynonyms for illusion
synonyms for illusion
- confusion
- deception
- delusion
- fantasy
- hallucination
- image
- misconception
- myth
- pipe dream
- semblance
- apparition
- bubble
- chimera
- daydream
- error
- fallacy
- fancy
- ghost
- hocus-pocus
- invention
- make believe
- mirage
- misapprehension
- mockery
- paramnesia
- phantasm
- rainbow
- trip
- déjà vu
- false impression
- figment of imagination
- fool's paradise
- head trip
- idolism
- ignus fatuus
- misbelief
- misimpression
- optical illusion
- seeming
- virtual reality
See also synonyms for: illusions
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Because tech stocks have been soaring to new highs lately, investors should have no illusions about the cost of the shares they’re considering buying.
INVESTORS RIDING HIGH ON APPLE AND TESLA STOCK SPLITS COULD GET CLIPPED, DATA SHOWSRHHACKETTFORTUNEAUGUST 31, 2020FORTUNETo give my students the illusion of eye contact, I learned to stare at the green light on my MacBook Air.
THAT CHATBOT I’VE LOVED TO HATETATE RYAN-MOSLEYAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWSeveral more recent studies conducted on individuals living in war and earthquake zones mirror Sosis’ finding that rituals give participants a sense — or a comforting illusion — of control over the uncontrollable.
WHY DO WE MISS THE RITUALS PUT ON HOLD BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC?SUJATA GUPTAAUGUST 14, 2020SCIENCE NEWSThe team wanted the site to look as Mars-like as possible, no factories, footprints or foliage to break the illusion.
TO REHEARSE PERSEVERANCE’S MISSION, SCIENTISTS PRETENDED TO BE A MARS ROVERLISA GROSSMANJULY 29, 2020SCIENCE NEWSWe should be looking at these if we have any illusions of sending kids back to school.
HOW TO MAKE INDOOR AIR SAFERKALEIGH ROGERS (KALEIGH.ROGERS@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JULY 20, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTBut the growing crops are too cleanly and carefully weeded and too uniformly good to protract the illusion.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYAll this I admit to be the fever of the mind—a waking dream—an illusion to which mesmerism or magic is but a frivolity.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThe burning atmosphere, the motionless air caused doubtless the optical illusion.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODNor wilt thou rest forever, weary heart.The last illusion is destroyed,That I eternal thought.
THE POEMS OF GIACOMO LEOPARDIGIACOMO LEOPARDIFrom the first entrance, to the last cry of triumph or despair, the illusion was perfect.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYWORDS RELATED TO ILLUSION
- bilk
- bluff
- boondoggle
- catch
- cheat
- chicane
- con
- con game
- confidence game
- cover-up
- crock
- decoy
- device
- dodge
- fallacy
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- feint
- fib
- fraud
- gimmick
- hoax
- hogwash
- hustle
- illusion
- imposture
- jive
- lie
- malarkey
- mare's-nest
- pretext
- ride
- ruse
- scam
- sham
- shift
- shuck
- snare
- snow job
- stall
- sting
- story
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- trap
- trick
- whitewash
- wile
- wrinkle
- apparition
- blunder
- casuistry
- chicanery
- daydream
- deception
- deceptiveness
- dream
- eidolon
- error
- fallacy
- false impression
- fancy
- fantasy
- figment
- fool's paradise
- ghost
- hallucination
- head trip
- ignis fatuus
- illusion
- lapse
- mirage
- misapprehension
- mistake
- optical illusion
- oversight
- phantasm
- phantom
- pipe dream
- self-deception
- shade
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- trickery
- trip
- vision
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