All delusion synonyms

noun delusion

• fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
• hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• phantasm — an apparition or specter.
• ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• daydream — A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
• shade — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
• mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
• dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
• vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• self-deception — the act or fact of deceiving oneself.
• non-spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
• mirage — an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
• trip — a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock.
• phantom — an apparition or specter.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• speciousness — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
• oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
• misapprehension — misunderstanding.
• apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
• figment — a mere product of mental invention; a fantastic notion: The noises in the attic were just a figment of his imagination.
• head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
• ignis fatuus — Also called friar's lantern, will-o'-the-wisp. a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground, and believed to be due to spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic matter.
• optical illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
• image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
• misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
• misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
• misunderstanding — failure to understand correctly; mistake as to meaning or intent.
• aberration — An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical.