Definition for Illusion:

• Deceptive appearance; false show; error.

Synonyms for Illusion:

• n.

  •
  • image.
  •
  • false impression,
  • confusion.
  •appearance (noun)
  • seeming.
  •cognition (noun)
  • semblance.
  •deception (noun)
  • imposition,
  • fast one.
  •false appearance; false belief (noun)
  • mockery,
  • fool's paradise,
  • trip,
  • ghost,
  • Misbelief,
  • Phantasm,
  • error,
  • apparition,
  • virtual reality,
  • fallacy,
  • invention,
  • head trip,
  • ignus fatuus,
  • misapprehension,
  • Idolism,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • make-believe,
  • misimpression,
  • paramnesia.
  •ghost (noun)
  • daemon,
  • frankenstein,
  • horror,
  • ogre,
  • bugaboo,
  • terror,
  • incubus,
  • monster,
  • specter,
  • vampire,
  • dracula,
  • werewolf,
  • bugbear,
  • hobgoblin,
  • bogey man,
  • shadow,
  • ghoul.
  •illusion (noun)
  • head game,
  • magic trick,
  • conjuration,
  • legerdemain,
  • phantasy,
  • conjuring trick.
  •imagination (noun)
  • unreality.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • pipe dream,
  • simulacrum,
  • castle in the air,
  • simulation,
  • Ignis Fatuus.
  •
  • daydream,
  • rainbow,
  • fiction,
  • fraud.
  •
  • reverie.
  •
  • bubble.
  •Other relevant words:
  • imaginary,
  • invocation,
  • cloud,
  • delusory,
  • sinfulness,
  • associate,
  • psychotic belief,
  • bedevilment,
  • variable,
  • prank,
  • exaggeration,
  • fond illusion,
  • spook,
  • unorthodoxy,
  • changeable,
  • joke,
  • poltergeist,
  • deceitful,
  • brainchild,
  • impression,
  • capricious,
  • amphibian,
  • thin air,
  • flimflam,
  • swindle,
  • flimflammery,
  • materialization,
  • delirium,
  • aberrancy,
  • victimization,
  • speculation,
  • dreamworld,
  • unreal,
  • doppelganger,
  • entanglement,
  • irregular,
  • heresy,
  • trickery,
  • likeness,
  • erratic,
  • falsehood,
  • dye,
  • revenant,
  • whim,
  • hint,
  • faultiness,
  • Peccancy,
  • mutable,
  • aberration,
  • Defrauding,
  • inconsistent,
  • falseness,
  • bewitchery,
  • colour,
  • defectiveness,
  • misinterpretation,
  • snow job,
  • delusiveness,
  • suggestion,
  • conjuring,
  • ENG,
  • untrue,
  • Misjudgment,
  • misconstruction,
  • Fooling,
  • erroneousness,
  • antic,
  • fondness,
  • spoofing,
  • maggot,
  • song and dance,
  • possession,
  • color,
  • insubstantial,
  • romance,
  • pipedream,
  • hamartia,
  • performance,
  • overreaching,
  • heterodoxy,
  • errancy,
  • subterfuge,
  • Conning,
  • deviancy,
  • bamboozlement,
  • mist,
  • unsubstantial,
  • wildest dreams,
  • snare,
  • circumvention,
  • Looming,
  • untruth,
  • Bluffing,
  • untruthfulness,
  • fantasque,
  • autism,
  • pipe,
  • dissembling,
  • enmeshment,
  • falsity,
  • Kidding,
  • Deceiving,
  • chimaera,
  • Manes,
  • perversion,
  • Imagining,
  • misfeasance,
  • smoke,
  • wildest dream,
  • befooling,
  • misrepresentation,
  • illusory,
  • futility,
  • vapor,
  • false light,
  • appear,
  • ether,
  • fictitious,
  • air,
  • changeful,
  • entrancement,
  • deceptive,
  • dupery,
  • entrapment,
  • flaw,
  • ensnarement,
  • outwitting,
  • enchantment,
  • vapour,
  • misapplication,
  • wishful thinking,
  • will-o'-the-wisp,
  • Self-contradiction,
  • false,
  • wrong,
  • untrueness,
  • shade,
  • Misdoing,
  • gloss,
  • fault,
  • dishonest,
  • psychopathy,
  • hoodwinking,
  • captivation,
  • whimsy,
  • deceit,
  • obsession,
  • fascination,
  • wrongness,
  • distortion,
  • trickiness,
  • fanciful,
  • Tricking,
  • fallaciousness,
  • Swindling,
  • maya,
  • banshee,
  • artificial,
  • sleight of hand,
  • seem,
  • caper,
  • dreamland,
  • imagery,
  • sin,
  • John,
  • spectre,
  • fantastic,
  • virtual image.

Paraphrases for Illusion:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    trick, enthusiasm.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    delusion.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    delusion, Self-delusion, illusory, misconception, impression, self-deception, deception, chimera, perception, fallacy, decoy, imagination, dream, vision, excitement, notion, semblance, fiction, mistake, deceit.

Antonyms for Illusion:

• n.

  • false appearance; false belief
    correction, truth, reality, fact, right, event, certainty, being.
  • Other antonyms:
    verity.

Hypernym for Illusion:

• n.

  • cognition
    phantom, Phantasma, Fantasm, shadow, Phantasm, phantom limb, irradiation, apparition.

Hyponym for Illusion:

• n.

  • cognition
    appearance.