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Another word for will-o'-the-wisp

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will-o'-the-wisp*

n.

fancy, ephemera, dream, pipedream, ignis fatuus (Latin), shadow, illusion, vision.

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Another word for will-o'-the-wisp

noun

An erroneous perception of reality:

delusion, hallucination, ignis fatuus, illusion, mirage, phantasm, phantasma. See real

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In the meantime, while various observers were building up our knowledge of the morphology of bacteria, others were laying the foundation of what is known of the relations of these organisms to fermentation and disease - that ancient will-o'-the-wisp " spontaneous generation " being revived by the way.
During the past century it was and even now is the very " will-o'-the-wisp " of evolution, always tending to lead the phylogenist astray.

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