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.

  • Your view of life is a regrettable delusion.

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