Delusion Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-lo͝ozhən
A false belief
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. misconception
  2. misapprehension
  3. self-deception
  4. psychotic belief
  5. fallacy

Words Related to Delusion

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Delusion Sentence Examples

  • Her comment on this delusion is instructive.

  • But you, too, shall be free from this delusion, this world of sense, this law of change.

  • 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 revulsion of feeling after the witchcraft delusion undermined his authority greatly, and Robert's Calef's More Wonders of the Spiritual World (1700) was a personal blow to him as well as to his son.

  • The ignorant populace, for whom the promised social millennium had by no means dawned, saw in an attitude seemingly so inconsistent obvious proof of corrupt motives, and there were plenty of prophets of misrule to encourage the delusion - orators of the clubs and the street corners, for whom the restoration of order would have meant well-deserved obscurity.

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