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Another word for delusion

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delusion

n.

An illusion
phantasm, hallucination, fancy; see illusion 1.
A false belief
misconception, misapprehension, self-deception, fallacy; see error 1, mistake 2. See syn. study at illusion.

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Another word for delusion

noun

An erroneous perception of reality:

hallucination, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantasma, will-o'-the-wisp. See real

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Her comment on this delusion is instructive.
For in Ford's genius there was real refinement, except when the "suprasensually sensual" impulse or the humbler self-delusion referred to came into play.
The chief features of this epoch -the Antinomian dissensions, the Quaker and Baptist persecutions, the witchcraft delusion (four witches were executed in Boston, in 1648, 165r, 1656, 1688) &c.-are referred to in the article Massachusetts.
The delusion that nature as represented in the classical pictures (bunjingwa) of China and Japan exists only in the artists imagination.
The witchcraft delusion of 1692 centred about Salem Village, now in the township of Danvers, but then a part of Salem.

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