All ignis fatuus synonyms

noun ignis fatuus

• apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
• bubble — Bubbles are small balls of air or gas in a liquid.
• chimera — A chimera is an unrealistic idea that you have about something or a hope that you have that is unlikely to be fulfilled.
• confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
• daydream — A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
• 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.
• 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.
• head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
• hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
• image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
• invention — the act of inventing.
• make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
• 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.
• misapprehension — misunderstanding.
• misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• myth — a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
• optical illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• phantasm — an apparition or specter.
• phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
• rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
• seeming — apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
• semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
• trip — a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock.
• virtual reality — a realistic and immersive simulation of a three-dimensional environment, created using interactive software and hardware, and experienced or controlled by movement of the body. Abbreviation: VR.
• deja vu — Déjà vu is the feeling that you have already experienced the things that are happening to you now.
• idolism — idolatry.
• misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
• misimpression — a faulty or incorrect impression; a misconception or misapprehension.
• paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
• fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
• will-o'-the-wisp — ignis fatuus (def 1).