All illusion synonyms

noun illusion

• semblance — outward aspect or appearance.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• 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.
• confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
• image — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
• misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• bubble — Bubbles are small balls of air or gas in a liquid.
• apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
• mockery — ridicule, contempt, or derision.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• invention — the act of inventing.
• chimera — A chimera is an unrealistic idea that you have about something or a hope that you have that is unlikely to be fulfilled.
• misapprehension — misunderstanding.
• 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.
• make-believe — pretense, especially of an innocent or playful kind; feigning; sham: the make-believe of children playing.
• daydream — A daydream is a series of pleasant thoughts, usually about things that you would like to happen.
• phantasm — an apparition or specter.
• trip — a group of animals, as sheep, goats, or fowl; flock.
• hocus-pocus — a meaningless chant or expression used in conjuring or incantation.
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• paramnesia — Psychiatry. a distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
• idea — any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
• effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
• dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• 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.
• optical illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• seeming — apparent; appearing, whether truly or falsely, to be as specified: a seeming advantage.
• 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.
• idolism — idolatry.
• misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
• misimpression — a faulty or incorrect impression; a misconception or misapprehension.
• fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
• deja vu — Déjà vu is the feeling that you have already experienced the things that are happening to you now.
• impression — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
• magic — the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring: to pull a rabbit out of a hat by magic.
• trickery — the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.
• artifice — Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
• sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
• chimaera — any tapering smooth-skinned cartilaginous deep-sea fish of the subclass Holocephali (or Bradyodonti), esp any of the genus Chimaera. They have a skull in which the upper jaw is fused to the cranium
• error — A mistake.
• appearance — When someone makes an appearance at a public event or in a broadcast, they take part in it.
• feeling — a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
• sensation — the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses.